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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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Brooklyn
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Maurice Bernard Sendak
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All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.
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My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.
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I wish you all good things. Live your life, live your life, live your life.
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You can't get rid of evil. We can't, and I feel that so intensely.
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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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That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.
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My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.
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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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You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of 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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Life has only gotten better personally for me as I've gotten older. I mean, being young was such a gross waste of time. I was just such a miserable, miserable person.
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