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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
Wild
Adventure
Inside
Hope
Fear
Thing

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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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From their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday lives, they continually cope with frustrations as best they can. And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.
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there is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality
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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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I wanted my wild things to be frightening.
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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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When you hide another story in a story, that’s the story I am telling the children.
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Kids lead a very private life.
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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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Children do live in fantasy and reality they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.
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To be a healthy person, you have to be sympathetic to the child you once were and maintain the continuity between you as a child and you as an adult.
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I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.
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I don't know how to write a children's book.
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I think there is something barbaric in children, and it's missing in lots of books for them because we don't like to think of it. We want them to be happy [but] childhood is a very tough time.
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I never can satisfy some need in me to achieve something of incredible hight. For my sake. It puzzles me deeply. And it sours my life. So there is a permanent dissatisfaction.
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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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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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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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As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.
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I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could.
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