#mo

I'm still as enamored and turned on by work as I was when I was young. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#i #still #turned #work #young

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

#another #child #children #dad #did

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

— Maurice Sendak

#children #human #human beings #mothers #sometimes

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

#child #confronted #critical #direction #father

There's so much more to a book than just the reading. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#hurt #imagination #more #often #reality

When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#emily #fervently #gods #gotten #herman

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#beautiful #most #most beautiful #qualities #true

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#anger #anything #harm #more #poured