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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
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New York
Maurice Bernard Sendak
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If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.
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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!
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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'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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From their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday lives, they continually cope with frustrations as best they can. And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.
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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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there is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality
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That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?
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I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.
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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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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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You can't get rid of evil. We can't, and I feel that so intensely.
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I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.
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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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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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Venturing back further, learning is so slow. Accomplishment is so slow. Experiencing and evaluating your experience is so slow.
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I don't write for children. I write, and somebody says, 'That's for children.'
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That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.
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I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.
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Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences.
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