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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
Tags: children, me, work, life

Other Quotes by "Maurice Sendak"

Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.
— Maurice Sendak
Tags: mom, sometimes, will, children
I'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep.
— Maurice Sendak
Tags: about, scared, watching, fall
I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'
— Maurice Sendak
Tags: which, controversial, idiot, name
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
Tags: okay, christian, nobody, me
Kids are so shrewd.
— Maurice Sendak
Tags: kids
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