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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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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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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 my wild things to be frightening.
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I'm totally crazy, I know that.
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Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but they know what's real and what's not. They understand metaphor and symbol. If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.
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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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And it's one of the sexiest things you will ever read of how slow you should take the peach. Don't rush it.
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My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.
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Herman Melville said that artists have to take a dive and either you hit your head on a rock and you split your skull and you die … or that blow to the head is so inspiring that you come back and do the best work that you ever did. BUT you have to take the dive and you do not know what the results will be.
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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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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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We've educated children to think spontaneity is inappropriate.
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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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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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Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.
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What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe.
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And the walls became the world all around.
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I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more.
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As a child, I felt that books were holy objects, to be caressed, rapturously sniffed, and devotedly provided for. I gave my life to them. I still do. I continue to do what I did as a child dream of books, make books and collect books.
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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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