MSMaurice Sendak

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Maurice Sendak

Life dates: 1928 AD — 2012 AD

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1970 AD

I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.

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02c. 1970 AD

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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03c. 1970 AD

Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.

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04c. 1970 AD

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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05c. 1970 AD

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.

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