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'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father. ↗

— 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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Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#beyond #certainly #children #comprehension #emotional

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#convinced #despair #down #everything #hope

Finding out that I was gay when I was older was a shock and a disappointment. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And there's no doubt about that. We just don't like to think about it. Certainly the men don't like to think about it. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#certainly #complicated #doubt #infinitely #just

I don't write for children. I write and someone says it's for children. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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