Maurice Sendak Quotes - Page 8

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• Bumble-Ardy looks like a happy book. That's the funniest thing about it. But this was survival. I was working very hard to survive.

  Maurice Sendak

  Book, Working Very Hard, Survival

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I'm not jaded. I never have been jaded. I've always been surprised at my success. I've always enjoyed it.

  Maurice Sendak

  Enjoyed, Jaded, Has Beens

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I never thought of Bumble-Ardy in that way. But I still have that same deep feeling for children who are in dire trouble. I see Bumble-Ardy as a lonely, unhappy kid who is doing the very best he can to be in the world, to have a party.

  Maurice Sendak

  Lonely, Children, Party

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• My big concern is me and what do I do now until the time of my death. That is valid. That is useful. That is beautiful. That is creative.

  Maurice Sendak

  Beautiful, Creative, Bigs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I want to be free again. I want to be free like when I was a kid, working with my brother and making toy airplanes and a whole model of the World's Fair in 1939 out of wax.

  Maurice Sendak

  Brother, Airplane, Kids

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• For my father the one calamity was that my brother and sister and I never learned to swim. My father, who was very macho, was a strong swimmer and was terribly disappointed to have children who didn't swim. Once when my mother was sitting in a beach chair - I can still see the big umbrella - she called to my father, "Throw them in! Throw them in! They'll swim!" So he did. Then he looked down, and there were the three Sendak children lying perfectly still underwater, not fighting for life!

  Maurice Sendak

  Mother, Beach, Brother

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I had lost my sister recently, too, which meant that my whole family was gone. I was the baby of the family. There were five Sendaks and there were five Wild Things, and now there's only one Sendak, and he's about to bite the dust, too! Life, as I said before, was very difficult at that time and so it was natural that there would be a change in the look of things. Also, I was very impressed with my own strength in doing this under the circumstances in which I was living.

  Maurice Sendak

  Baby, Dust, Would Be

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I'm getting old. And I'm disappointed in everything just the way old people traditionally, boringly are. That bothers me because is it too traditional? Am I not fighting hard enough? I don't feel the fight. I don't feel it.

  Maurice Sendak

  Fighting, People, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The fan mail I get from kids are asking me questions which they do not ask their mothers and fathers. Because if they had, why write to me, a perfect stranger?

  Maurice Sendak

  Mother, Father, Writing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I thought that if I were going into old age I would want to do what [Giuseppe] Verdi did, which is to write extraordinary things, and to really find myself.

  Maurice Sendak

  Writing, Age, Want

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I had been reading a fabulous book [The Man Verdi, by Frank Walker] about [Giuseppe] Verdi, whom I adore.

  Maurice Sendak

  Reading, Book, Men

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• Venturing back further, learning is so slow. Accomplishment is so slow. Experiencing and evaluating your experience is so slow.

  Maurice Sendak

  Accomplishment

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It was inconceivable to me as a child that I would be an adult. I mean, one assumed that it would happen, but obviously it didn't happen, or if it did, it happened when your back was turned, and then suddenly you were there. So I couldn't have thought about it much.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Mean

  "Looking Back On 'Wild Things' With Maurice Sendak". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 23, 2009.

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