Maurice Sendak Quotes
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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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A book is a book is a book.
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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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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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As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.
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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 believe there is no part of our lives, our adult as well as child life, when we're not fantasizing, but we prefer to relegate fantasy to children, as though it were some tomfoolery only fit for the immature minds of the young. Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.
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I am not a religious person, nor do I have any regrets.
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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 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 didn't have much confidence in myself... never.
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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 have a good life.
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I feel like I don't have a lot of time left.
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I refuse to lie to children.
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You don't want to do something that's all terrifying.
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I'm not a religious person.
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I don't have kids at all and I thank God that I never did.
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The world is twice as crazy as it's ever been.
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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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My parents were very indiscrete.
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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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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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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.