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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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You can start making up any kind of story if you want to.
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I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.
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I'm getting old. And I'm disappointed in everything just the way old people traditionally, boringly are. That bothers me because is it too traditional? Am I not fighting hard enough? I don't feel the fight. I don't feel it.
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Oh, please don't go — we'll eat you up — we love you so!
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there is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality
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