Maurice Sendak Quotes
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My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions.
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Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know.
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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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I am not a religious person, nor do I have any regrets.
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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. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.
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I didn't have much confidence in myself... never.
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I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read three poems of Emily. She is so brave. She is so strong. She is such a sexy, passionate, little woman. I feel better.
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I feel like I don't have a lot of time left.
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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 hard.
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I have a good life.
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Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.
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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.
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I became a set designer for opera.
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My being gay was something of not great interest to me.
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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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You don't want to do something that's all terrifying.
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I'm sick of 'Wild Things.'
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I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.
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Hitler made a film about 'Hitler gives a camp to the Jews'. And they look all shiny. And they're drawing. And they're playing volleyball. And people are dancing. And people are having a wonderful time. And everybody fell for it.
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If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up.
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The world is twice as crazy as it's ever been.
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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.
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There's something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children.
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I'm not a religious person.