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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What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is.
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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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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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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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A book is a book is a book.
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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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I am not a religious person, nor do I have any regrets.
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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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As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.
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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 have a good life.
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My parents were very indiscrete.
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The world is twice as crazy as it's ever been.
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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'm not a religious person.
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I didn't have much confidence in myself... never.
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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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I feel like I don't have a lot of time left.
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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.
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You don't want to do something that's all terrifying.
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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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I refuse to lie to children.
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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.