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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
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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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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 do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.
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That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.
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I'm totally crazy, I know that.
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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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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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Dreams raise the emotional level of what I'm doing at the moment.
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You can start making up any kind of story if you want to.
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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 don't believe in an afterlife but I still fully expect to see my brother again.
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I wish you all good things. Live your life, live your life, live your life.
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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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I stress character, character, character.
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Oh, please don't go — we'll eat you up — we love you so!
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I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'
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The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.
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We all want to be renewed, don't we?
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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 had been reading a fabulous book [The Man Verdi, by Frank Walker] about [Giuseppe] Verdi, whom I adore.
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