Maurice Sendak quotes - page 5

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. (Maurice Sendak)
I became a set designer for opera. View quote
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My father belonged to a Jewish social club. View quote
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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. View quote
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My therapies went on forever. View quote
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My parents were very indiscrete. View quote
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I don't write for children. I write and someone says it's for children. View quote
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If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up. View quote
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I was miserable as a kid. View quote
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I'm an illustrator. I have to accept my role. View quote
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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. (Maurice Sendak)
My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World. View quote
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I am not a religious person, nor do I have any regrets. View quote
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Things come to you without you necessarily knowing what they mean. View quote
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People from New York have been calling, to see if I'm still alive. When I answer the phone, you can hear the disappointment in their voice. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep. View quote
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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! View quote
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I don't need faith. View quote
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Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing. (Maurice Sendak)
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. View quote
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I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be. View quote
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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. View quote
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You don't want to do something that's all terrifying. View quote
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