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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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I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever. ↗

— 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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I'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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

— Maurice Sendak

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I'm totally crazy, I know that. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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I'm writing a poem right now about a nose. I've always wanted to write a poem about a nose. But it's a ludicrous subject. That's why, when I was younger, I was afraid of something that didn't make a lot of sense. But now I'm not. I have nothing to worry about. It doesn't matter. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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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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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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