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Maurice Sendak

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I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.


— Maurice Sendak


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There must be more to life than having everything.


— Maurice Sendak


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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.


— Maurice Sendak


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A book is a book is a book.


— Maurice Sendak


All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy.


— Maurice Sendak


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All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.


— Maurice Sendak


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As a kid, all I thought about was death.


— Maurice Sendak


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As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.


— Maurice Sendak


#death #i #kid #parents #tell






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Swine Lake (by James Marshall) (1999)
Brundibár (by Tony Kushner) (2003)
Sarah's Room (by Doris Orgel) (2003)
The Happy Rain (by Jack Sendak) (2004)
Bears! (by Ruth Krauss) (2005)


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The Art of Maurice Sendak (by Selma G. The citation called him "the modern picture-book's portal figure" and the presentation credited Where the Wild Things Are with "all at once [revolutionizing] the entire picture-book narrative. He decided to become an illustrator after watching Walt Disney's film Fantasia at the age of twelve.

Maurice Bernard Sendak (/ˈsɛndæk/; June 10 1928 – May 8 2012) was an American illustrator and writer of children's books. He was best known for his book Where the Wild Things Are first publiMaurice Sendakd in 1963.

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