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We've educated children to think spontaneity is inappropriate.
Maurice Sendak
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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
Artist
Cartoonist
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Brooklyn
New York
Maurice Bernard Sendak
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I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.
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Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.
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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've always loved pigs: the shape of them, the look of them, and the fact that they are so intelligent.
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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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Venturing back further, learning is so slow. Accomplishment is so slow. Experiencing and evaluating your experience is so slow.
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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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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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I wish you all good things. Live your life, live your life, live your life.
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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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Emeralds,' said the rabbit. 'Emeralds make a lovely gift.
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My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.
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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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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 feel it in me like a woman having a baby, all that life churning inside me. I feel it every day it moves, stretches, yawns. It's getting ready to be born. It knows exactly what it is.
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I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'
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Kids never get pissed at their parents. Unheard of.
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I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard.
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