Maurice Sendak Quotes
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I'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep.
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You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life.
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Yes, there have to be places for safe wonderful stories.
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My therapies went on forever.
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I would infinitely prefer a daughter.
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We're supposed to do all these things which trouble us deeply because it's so against what we naturally would want to do.
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Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences.
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There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.
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My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.
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I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man.
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You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.
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We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal.
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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 berserk.
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I cry a lot because I miss people.
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I certainly don't spell it out. But they have to know it's possible things are bad. But, they are surrounded by people who love them and will protect them but cannot hide the fact that there is something bad.
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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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I'm not Hans Christian Anderson. 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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I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.
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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.
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I stress character, character, character.