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How do you write for children? I really have never figured that out. So I decided to just ignore it
Maurice Sendak
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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
Artist
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Brooklyn
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Maurice Bernard Sendak
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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'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 wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.
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I don't write for children. I write, and somebody says, 'That's for children.'
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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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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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I often went to bed without supper cause I hated my mother's cooking. So, to go to bed without supper was not a torture to me. If she was gonna hurt me, she'd make me eat.
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If you're making it up, make it up good. And then believe in what you made up.
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I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them
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I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.
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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 don't believe in an afterlife but I still fully expect to see my brother again.
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My father belonged to a Jewish social club.
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And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.
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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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The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.
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My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.
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Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys, and women more than men.
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