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We all want to be renewed, don't we?

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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
Artist
Cartoonist
Graphic Designer
Illustrator
Painter
Screenwriter
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Maurice Bernard Sendak
Renewed

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I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.
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Kids lead a very private life.
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How do you write for children? I really have never figured that out. So I decided to just ignore it
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If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up.
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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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I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.
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Emeralds,' said the rabbit. 'Emeralds make a lovely gift.
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Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.
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I’m not Hans Christian Andersen. Nobody’s gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won’t have it, okay?
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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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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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Oh, please don't go — we'll eat you up — we love you so!
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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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I'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep.
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I'm totally crazy, I know that.
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I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could.
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God, I had great people in my life.
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When you hide another story in a story, that’s the story I am telling the children.
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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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