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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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Women

Think

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" Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do. "

" I'm not a religious person. "

" I don't write for children. I write and someone says it's for children. "

" My work is not great, but it's respectable. "

" 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. "

" My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health. "

" We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. "

" I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable. "

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" My father belonged to a Jewish social club. "

" 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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Christian

Nobody

" 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. "

" I was miserable as a kid. "

Maurice Sendak

Miserable

Kid

" That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father? "

" 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. "

" I became a set designer for opera. "

" Things come to you without you necessarily knowing what they mean. "

" I feel like I don't have a lot of time left. "

" I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future. They may well be. "

" I don't need faith. "

Maurice Sendak

Need

Faith

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" I'm totally crazy, I know that. "

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

" I have a good life. "

" I'm a lucky buck. "

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Buck

Lucky

" 'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father. "