“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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Maurice Sendak is an American writer and illustrator of children's literature. He is best known for his book *Where the Wild Things Are*, published in 1963.
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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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“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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“The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.”
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“Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown... There's something so hopelessly gross and vile about him it's hard to take him seriously.”
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“I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book pe...”
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“Grown-ups are afraid for children. It's not children who are afraid.”
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“I'm an illustrator. I have to accept my role.”
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“You can't write masterpieces in your 80s and be happy too.”
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“I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.”
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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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“My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World.”
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“'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.”
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“I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.”
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“Kids don't know about best sellers. They go for what they enjoy. They aren't star chasers and they don't suck up. It's why I like them.”
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“I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.”
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“I became a set designer for opera.”
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“Kids are so shrewd.”
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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 have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'”
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“I'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep.”
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