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I became a set designer for opera. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#buff #classical #classical music #designer #great

I didn't have much confidence in myself... never. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#i #much #myself #never

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

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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 #brother #brother and sister #day #dead

I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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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? ↗

— 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

#break #candy #children #collapse #instantly

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

— Maurice Sendak

#break #candy #children #collapse #instantly

The distinctions of fine art bore me to death. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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