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Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys, and women more than men.
Maurice Sendak
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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
Artist
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Maurice Bernard Sendak
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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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To be a healthy person, you have to be sympathetic to the child you once were and maintain the continuity between you as a child and you as an adult.
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Herman Melville said that artists have to take a dive and either you hit your head on a rock and you split your skull and you die … or that blow to the head is so inspiring that you come back and do the best work that you ever did. BUT you have to take the dive and you do not know what the results will be.
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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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All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.
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There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.
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I'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep.
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I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more.
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I wanted my wild things to be frightening.
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We all want to be renewed, don't we?
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I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents!
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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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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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I don't know how to write a children's book.
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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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We've educated children to think spontaneity is inappropriate.
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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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As a child, I felt that books were holy objects, to be caressed, rapturously sniffed, and devotedly provided for. I gave my life to them. I still do. I continue to do what I did as a child dream of books, make books and collect books.
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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 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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