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I know there are supposedly happy people in this world. I never believed it, but I take it for granted. God knows, they're all on television.
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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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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The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.
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I wanted my wild things to be frightening.
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Why is my needle stuck in childhood? I don't know why. I guess it's because that's where my heart is.
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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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My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.
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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.
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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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If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.
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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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The fan mail I get from kids are asking me questions which they do not ask their mothers and fathers. Because if they had, why write to me, a perfect stranger?
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I don't write for children. I write, and somebody says, 'That's for children.'
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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 do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.
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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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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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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 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 belonged to a Jewish social club.
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I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.
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