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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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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
Artist
Cartoonist
Graphic Designer
Illustrator
Painter
Screenwriter
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Maurice Bernard Sendak
Slow
Learning
Experience
Back
Venturing
Evaluating
Experiencing
Accomplishment

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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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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 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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Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.
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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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'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother stupid, inane father.
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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 want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother.
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[Drawing] and making things was all we ever did. My brother and I built the entire New York World's Fair of 1939 in miniature out of wax. The floor of our room was covered with little waxen buildings. Nobody else could come in.
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And the walls became the world all around.
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Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown... There's something so hopelessly gross and vile about him it's hard to take him seriously.
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I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.
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I have been doodling with ink and watercolor on paper all my life. It's my way of stirring up my imagination to see what I find hidden in my head. I call the results dream pictures, fantasy sketches, and even brain-sharpenin g exercises.
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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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I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.
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And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.
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If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up.
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There's so much more to a book than just the reading.
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I wish you all good things. Live your life, live your life, live your life.
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