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God, I had great people in my life.

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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
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I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.
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You can't get rid of evil. We can't, and I feel that so intensely.
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I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.
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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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One of the beauties of being an artist is that you can create a whole new world, with circumstances that are better in your invented world than they are in the real world.
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That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.
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And the walls became the world all around.
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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.
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The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.
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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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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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My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.
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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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And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.
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