#tell

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#cracking #folks #get #point #society

I've never reacted well to other people telling me what to do. ↗

— Tom Selleck

#me #never #other #people #reacted

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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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

#convinced #despair #down #everything #hope

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

#better #books #children #critics #i

I've always loved pigs: the shape of them, the look of them, and the fact that they are so intelligent. ↗

— 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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It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week. ↗

— Ted Shackelford

#brought #each #good #storytelling #unpredictable

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#curse #fly #god #heaven #ignorance