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If you're making it up, make it up good. And then believe in what you made up.
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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Maurice Bernard Sendak
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As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.
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I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.
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I believe there is no part of our lives, our adult as well as child life, when we're not fantasizing, but we prefer to relegate fantasy to children, as though it were some tomfoolery only fit for the immature minds of the young. Children do live in fantasy and reality they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.
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How do you write for children? I really have never figured that out. So I decided to just ignore it
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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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Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.
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I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read three poems of Emily. She is so brave. She is so strong. She is such a sexy, passionate, little woman. I feel better.
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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'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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One of the beauties of being an artist is that you can create a whole new world, with circumstances that are better in your invented world than they are in the real world.
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I stress character, character, character.
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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'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 don't believe in an afterlife but I still fully expect to see my brother again.
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I'm totally crazy, I know that. I don't say that to be a smartass, but I know that that's the very essence of what makes my work good. And I know my work is good. Not everybody likes it, that's fine. I don't do it for everybody. Or anybody. I do it because I can't not do it.
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Because love is so enormous, the only thing you can think of doing is swallowing the person that you love entirely.
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I became a set designer for opera.
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There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.
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I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.
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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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