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Dreams raise the emotional level of what I'm doing at the moment.
Maurice Sendak
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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
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Maurice Bernard Sendak
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Bumble-Ardy is a very wicked little child as far as I'm concerned. He's not to be trusted.
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I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person.
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I'm writing a poem right now about a nose. I've always wanted to write a poem about a nose. But it's a ludicrous subject. That's why, when I was younger, I was afraid of [writing] something that didn't make a lot of sense. But now I'm not. I have nothing to worry about. It doesn't matter.
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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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That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.
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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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God, I had great people in my life.
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In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.
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Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.
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I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.
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Kids lead a very private life.
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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 stress character, character, character.
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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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Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.
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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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