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I cry a lot because I miss people.
- Maurice Sendak
#Because
#Cry
#Lot
#Miss
#People
I remember how much - when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of 'Peter Pan.' I detested it. I mean, the sentimental idea that anybody would want to remain a boy.
- Maurice Sendak
#Boy
#Mean
#Remember
#See
#Version
In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.
- Maurice Sendak
#Anger
#Childhood
#Crazy
#Cruelty
#Drive
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.
- Maurice Sendak
#Children
#Hope
#Myself
#Parents
#Truth
My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.
- Maurice Sendak
#Always
#Father
#Humor
#Irony
#Side
You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.
- Maurice Sendak
#Children
#Complicated
#Interest
#Only
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
#Better
#Brave
#Sexy
#Three
#Woman
I didn't have much confidence in myself... never.
- Maurice Sendak
#Confidence
#Much
#Myself
#Never
I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future. They may well be.
- Maurice Sendak
#Cannot
#Future
#Hate
#Those
#Well
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.
- Maurice Sendak
#Great
#Hard
#Idiot
#Seriously
#Something
I don't believe in an afterlife but I still fully expect to see my brother again.
- Maurice Sendak
#Afterlife
#Believe
#Brother
#See
#Still
I'm an illustrator. I have to accept my role.
- Maurice Sendak
#Accept
#Illustrator
#Role
Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.
- Maurice Sendak
#Business
#Childhood
#Goes
#Tricky
#Wrong
There must be more to life than having everything.
- Maurice Sendak
#Everything
#Life
#More
#Must
#Than
I don't write for children. I write and someone says it's for children.
- Maurice Sendak
#Children
#I Write
#Says
#Someone
#Write
I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.
- Maurice Sendak
#Brother
#Childhood
#Made
#Savior
#Who
I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.
- Maurice Sendak
#Believe
#Man
#Old Man
#Old
#Young
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.
- Maurice Sendak
#Alone
#Day
#Dead
#Feel
#Work
There's so much more to a book than just the reading.
- Maurice Sendak
#Book
#Just
#More
#Reading
#Than
Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.
- Maurice Sendak
#Children
#Human
#Mom
#Sometimes
#Will
#Wrong
I don't need faith.
- Maurice Sendak
#Faith
#Need
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