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If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.
Maurice Sendak
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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
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Brooklyn
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Maurice Bernard Sendak
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Because love is so enormous, the only thing you can think of doing is swallowing the person that you love entirely.
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I'm not jaded. I never have been jaded. I've always been surprised at my success. I've always enjoyed it.
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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 had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.
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It was a very difficult time. I was working on [umble-Ardy] when my partner and friend was dying of cancer. We set up a room in the house to be like a hospital room. Eugene died, and then I had bypass surgery. I was doing the book to stay sane while all this was going on.
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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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My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.
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I wish you all good things. Live your life, live your life, live your life.
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Kids never get pissed at their parents. Unheard of.
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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 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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