#child

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

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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. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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

— Maurice Sendak

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Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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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. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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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? ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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Adults are obsolete children. ↗

— Dr. Seuss

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My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

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The umlaut isn't on my birth certificate. I had this book as a child called Chloe and Maude, and there was an umlaut on the e, and I said, I want that! It's a little flair. Just to confuse people even more. ↗

— Chloe Sevigny

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