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When you hide another story in a story, that’s the story I am telling the children.

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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
Artist
Cartoonist
Graphic Designer
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Screenwriter
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Brooklyn
New York
Maurice Bernard Sendak
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You can't get rid of evil. We can't, and I feel that so intensely.
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I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents!
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Kids never get pissed at their parents. Unheard of.
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Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown... There's something so hopelessly gross and vile about him it's hard to take him seriously.
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Thank God that Bumble-Ardy's parents are dead so we don't have to wonder what they did to him. We only know that they were famous, and famous people have unhappy children for the most part. They don't have the time to take care of them. So he's a troubled pig-boy, a kid you've got to watch.
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I want to be free again. I want to be free like when I was a kid, working with my brother and making toy airplanes and a whole model of the World's Fair in 1939 out of wax.
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I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard.
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When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.
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And the walls became the world all around.
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There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready.
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There's a mystery there, a clue, a nut, a bolt, and if I put it together, I find me.
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I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.
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I have been doodling with ink and watercolor on paper all my life. It's my way of stirring up my imagination to see what I find hidden in my head. I call the results dream pictures, fantasy sketches, and even brain-sharpenin g exercises.
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Inside all of us is... hope. Inside all of us is... fear. Inside all of us is... adventure. Inside all of us is a wild thing.
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If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.
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We've educated children to think spontaneity is inappropriate.
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How do you write for children? I really have never figured that out. So I decided to just ignore it
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I'm getting old. And I'm disappointed in everything just the way old people traditionally, boringly are. That bothers me because is it too traditional? Am I not fighting hard enough? I don't feel the fight. I don't feel it.
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I know there are supposedly happy people in this world. I never believed it, but I take it for granted. God knows, they're all on television.
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