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God, I had great people in my life.

Maurice Sendak

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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
Artist
Cartoonist
Graphic Designer
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Painter
Screenwriter
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Maurice Bernard Sendak
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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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If you're making it up, make it up good. And then believe in what you made up.
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I'm totally crazy, I know that.
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I often went to bed without supper cause I hated my mother's cooking. So, to go to bed without supper was not a torture to me. If she was gonna hurt me, she'd make me eat.
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I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person.
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My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.
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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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Dreams raise the emotional level of what I'm doing at the moment.
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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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And the walls became the world all around.
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Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.
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All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.
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You can't get rid of evil. We can't, and I feel that so intensely.
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When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.
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Emeralds,' said the rabbit. 'Emeralds make a lovely gift.
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