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All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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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

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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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I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could. ↗

— 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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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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My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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My parents were very indiscrete. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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