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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
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Maurice Bernard Sendak
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If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up.
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You can't get rid of evil. We can't, and I feel that so intensely.
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It was inconceivable to me as a child that I would be an adult. I mean, one assumed that it would happen, but obviously it didn't happen, or if it did, it happened when your back was turned, and then suddenly you were there. So I couldn't have thought about it much.
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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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Oh, please don't go — we'll eat you up — we love you so!
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My father belonged to a Jewish social club.
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Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys, and women more than men.
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It is such an abundance of idiocy that you lose courage. That you lose hope. I don't want to lose hope. I get through every day. I'm pretty good. I work. I sleep. I sing. I walk.
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Venturing back further, learning is so slow. Accomplishment is so slow. Experiencing and evaluating your experience is so slow.
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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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I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.
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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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I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'
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We all want to be renewed, don't we?
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The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.
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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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And the walls became the world all around.
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As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of saying it. No story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it’s not the work of the imagination.
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That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.
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