Maurice Sendak
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“Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And there’s no doubt about that. We just don’t like to think about it. Certainly the men don’t like to think about it.” -Maurice Sendak
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“To get a child’s trust – you may know or not – is a very hard thing to do. They’re so used to not believing adults – because adults tell tales and lies all the time.” -Maurice Sendak
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“What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is.” -Maurice 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.” -Maurice Sendak
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“There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.” -Maurice Sendak
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“Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went…
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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.” -Maurice Sendak
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“Most children – I know I did when I was a kid – fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don’t tell their real parents about that – you don’t want to tell Mom and Dad.” -Maurice Sendak
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“My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.” -Maurice Sendak
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“I’ve convinced myself – I hope I’m right – that children despair of you if you don’t tell them the truth.” -Maurice Sendak
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“My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.” -Maurice Sendak
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“I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.” -Maurice Sendak
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“I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future. They may well be.” -Maurice Sendak
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“I’d like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.” -Maurice Sendak
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“As a kid, all I thought about was death.” -Maurice Sendak
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“Most children – I know I did when I was a kid – fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don’t tell their real parents about that – you don’t want to tell Mom and Dad.” -Maurice Sendak
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“Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.” -Maurice Sendak
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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! It’s an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That’s just work that’s too…
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“In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There’s a cruelty to childhood, there’s an anger.” -Maurice Sendak
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I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I’m dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They’re nowhere. I know they’re nowhere and they don’t exist, but if nowhere means that’s where they are, that’s where…
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