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I only have one subject. The question I am obsessed with is: How do children survive? ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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I refuse to lie to children. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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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

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I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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I was miserable as a kid. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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I would infinitely prefer a daughter. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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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

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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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