Maurice Sendak Quotes (109 quotes)

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„When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.“
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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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„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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„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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„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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„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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„You don't want to do something that's all terrifying.“
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„Yes, there have to be places for safe wonderful stories.“
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„There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.“
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„My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions.“
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„My work is not great, but it's respectable.“
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„My therapies went on forever.“
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„My parents were very indiscrete.“
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„My father belonged to a Jewish social club.“
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„Kids lead a very private life.“
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„Kids are so shrewd.“
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„It dawned on me that art was the way I could survive.“
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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.“
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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'm still as enamored and turned on by work as I was when I was young.“
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Maurice Sendak
Author born: June 10, 1928
Author died: May 08, 2012
Nationality: American
Author Profession: Artist

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