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If you're making it up, make it up good. And then believe in what you made up.

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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
Artist
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Brooklyn
New York
Maurice Bernard Sendak
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One of the few graces of getting old - and God knows there are few graces - is that if you've worked hard and kept your nose to the grindstone, something happens: The body gets old but the creative mechanism is refreshed, smoothed and oiled and honed. That is the grace. That is what's happening to me.
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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 never can satisfy some need in me to achieve something of incredible hight. For my sake. It puzzles me deeply. And it sours my life. So there is a permanent dissatisfaction.
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What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe.
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When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.
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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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To be a healthy person, you have to be sympathetic to the child you once were and maintain the continuity between you as a child and you as an adult.
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There's so much more to a book than just the reading.
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Dreams raise the emotional level of what I'm doing at the moment.
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Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.
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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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I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.
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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'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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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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I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more.
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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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I'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep.
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