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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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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
Artist
Cartoonist
Graphic Designer
Illustrator
Painter
Screenwriter
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Maurice Bernard Sendak
Hope
Fear
Thing
Wild
Adventure
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I wanted my wild things to be frightening.
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As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.
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I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother.
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Kids don't know about best sellers. They go for what they enjoy. They aren't star chasers and they don't suck up. It's why I like them.
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I stress character, character, character.
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Why is my needle stuck in childhood? I don't know why. I guess it's because that's where my heart is.
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I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.
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I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.
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I said anything I wanted because I don't believe in children I don't believe in childhood. I don't believe that there's a demarcation. 'Oh you mustn't tell them that. You mustn't tell them that.' You tell them anything you want. Just tell them if it's true. If it's true you tell them.
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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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We've educated children to think spontaneity is inappropriate.
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I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.
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I wish you all good things. Live your life, live your life, live your life.
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Oh, please don't go — we'll eat you up — we love you so!
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I've always loved pigs: the shape of them, the look of them, and the fact that they are so intelligent.
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Life has only gotten better personally for me as I've gotten older. I mean, being young was such a gross waste of time. I was just such a miserable, miserable person.
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You can start making up any kind of story if you want to.
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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 never set out to write books for children. I don't have a feeling that I'm gonna save children or my life is devoted.
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All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.
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