"A book is really like a lover. It……" — Maurice Sendak
"A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful."
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146 Quotes by Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak has 146 quotes on this site.
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As a child, I felt that books were holy objects, to be caressed, rapturously sniffed, and devotedly provided for. I…
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I would infinitely prefer a daughter.
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I never spent less than two years on the text of one of my picture books, even though each of…
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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…
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There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I'm…
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It is a blessing to get old. It is a blessing to find the time to do the things, to…
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Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not…
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I believe there is no part of our lives, our adult as well as child life, when we're not fantasizing,…
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I'm totally crazy, I know that. I don't say that to be a smartass, but I know that that's the…
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I don't write for children. I write, and somebody says, 'That's for children.'
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I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.
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As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of…
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As all those have shown who have discussed civil institutions, and as every history is full of examples, it is…
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The whole language of nature informs us, that in animated beings there is something above our powers of investigation; something…
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Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they…
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A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful. Even…
— Maurice Sendak
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Even Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, and Albert Einstein made serious mistakes. But the scientific enterprise arranges…
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The good designer aims at a perfect fusion of the various considerations which enter into his design. He aims at…
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Pseudo faith always arranges a way out to serve in case God fails it. Real faith knows only one way…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The dialectical or ecological approach asserts that creating the world is involved in our every act. It is impossible for…
— Wes Jackson
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The guy that just arranges things so that the stock market holds up is nobody in my - in my…
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What God arranges for us to experience at each moment is the best and holiest thing that could happen to…
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One arranges flowers as the spirit moves you; to obey some inner prompting to put this colour with that, to…
— Constance Spry
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