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From Quotes by Maurice Sendak
- Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but…
- If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.
- Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to a…
- 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…
- Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things.
- Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters —…
- Sendak is in search of what he calls a "yummy death". William Blake set the standard, jumping up from his death bed at the last…
- . . .from their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday lives,…
- My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World.
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