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I want to be free again. I want to be free like when I was a kid, working with my brother and making toy airplanes and a whole model of the World's Fair in 1939 out of wax.
Maurice Sendak
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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
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I don't know how to write a children's book.
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I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.
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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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The fan mail I get from kids are asking me questions which they do not ask their mothers and fathers. Because if they had, why write to me, a perfect stranger?
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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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That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.
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I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.
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I'm getting old. And I'm disappointed in everything just the way old people traditionally, boringly are. That bothers me because is it too traditional? Am I not fighting hard enough? I don't feel the fight. I don't feel it.
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