318 Quotes by Maurice Sendak
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I wish you all good things. Live your life, live your life, live your life.
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Grown-ups are afraid for children. It's not children who are afraid.
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A whole new world of Italian music was springing up, and [Giuseppe] Verdi was seen as old. Boito got Verdi all excited about the possibility of doing another opera, another kind of opera. In fact, Verdi composed his two best operas, Otello and Falstaff, in his eighties.
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My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.
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I really don't like the city anymore. You get pushed and harassed and people grope you. It's too tumultuous. It's too crazy.
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A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.
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My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.
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And the walls became the world all around.
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The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.
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