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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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And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.
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We all want to be renewed, don't we?
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And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.
Maurice Sendak
It is such an abundance of idiocy that you lose courage. That you lose hope. I don't want to lose hope. I get through every day. I'm pretty good. I work. I sleep. I sing. I walk.
Maurice Sendak
Kids don't know about best sellers. They go for what they enjoy. They aren't star chasers and they don't suck up. It's why I like them.
Maurice Sendak
There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.
Maurice Sendak
My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.
Maurice Sendak
I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them
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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 wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.
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I never set out to write books for children. I don't have a feeling that I'm gonna save children or my life is devoted.
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I don't know how to write a children's book.
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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.
Maurice Sendak
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.
Maurice Sendak
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.
Maurice Sendak
Because love is so enormous, the only thing you can think of doing is swallowing the person that you love entirely.
Maurice Sendak
How do you write for children? I really have never figured that out. So I decided to just ignore it
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It was inconceivable to me as a child that I would be an adult. I mean, one assumed that it would happen, but obviously it didn't happen, or if it did, it happened when your back was turned, and then suddenly you were there. So I couldn't have thought about it much.
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A whole new world of Italian music was springing up, and [Giuseppe] Verdi was seen as old. Boito got Verdi all excited about the possibility of doing another opera, another kind of opera. In fact, Verdi composed his two best operas, Otello and Falstaff, in his eighties.
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