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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 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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If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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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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It dawned on me that art was the way I could survive. ↗

— 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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