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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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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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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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And the walls became the world all around.
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I've always loved pigs: the shape of them, the look of them, and the fact that they are so intelligent.
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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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I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.
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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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I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.
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It was a very difficult time. I was working on [umble-Ardy] when my partner and friend was dying of cancer. We set up a room in the house to be like a hospital room. Eugene died, and then I had bypass surgery. I was doing the book to stay sane while all this was going on.
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There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready.
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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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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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You can start making up any kind of story if you want to.
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My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.
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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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Emeralds,' said the rabbit. 'Emeralds make a lovely gift.
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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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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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there is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality
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That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.
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