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" I'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep. "
Maurice Sendak
Watching
Fall
Show
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" I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. "
Maurice Sendak
Turned
Man
Believe
" I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future. They may well be. "
Maurice Sendak
Hate
Future
May
" I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them. "
Maurice Sendak
Books
Childhood
Children
" I'm not a religious person. "
Maurice Sendak
Religious
Person
Religious Person
" I only have one subject. The question I am obsessed with is: How do children survive? "
Maurice Sendak
I Am
Children
Survive
" My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health. "
Maurice Sendak
Life
Health
Bad
" I didn't have much confidence in myself... never. "
Maurice Sendak
Confidence
Much
Myself
" 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. "
Maurice Sendak
You
Parents
Want
" I would infinitely prefer a daughter. "
Maurice Sendak
Daughter
Infinitely
Prefer
" There must be more to life than having everything. "
Maurice Sendak
Life
Everything
Than
" 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
You
Believe
Know
" I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think. "
Maurice Sendak
Think
You
Better
" My being gay was something of not great interest to me. "
Maurice Sendak
Great
Me
Something
" 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
Sexy
You
" My father belonged to a Jewish social club. "
Maurice Sendak
Social
Belonged
Club
" You can't write masterpieces in your 80s and be happy too. "
Maurice Sendak
Too
Write
Happy
" What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is. "
Maurice Sendak
Deep
Respect
Children
" I have a good life. "
Maurice Sendak
Life
Good
Good Life
" When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does. "
Maurice Sendak
Friend
Myself
Live
" 'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father. "
Maurice Sendak
Stories
Father
Ever
" My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World. "
Maurice Sendak
World
Old
Parents
" 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
Write
" I was miserable as a kid. "
Maurice Sendak
Miserable
Kid
" My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony. "
Maurice Sendak
Always
Humor
Witty
" My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions. "
Maurice Sendak
Work
Great
False
" We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. "
Maurice Sendak
Criminal
Animals
Violent
" As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that. "
Maurice Sendak
Thought
You
Death
" Things come to you without you necessarily knowing what they mean. "
Maurice Sendak
Mean
Without
You
" You don't want to do something that's all terrifying. "
Maurice Sendak
Something
Terrifying
Want
" I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! "
Maurice Sendak
Parents
Tests
Think