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Maurice Sendak Quotes: We're supposed to be civilized. We're supposed to go to work every day. We're supposed to be nice to our friends and send Christmas cards to our parents.
         

We're supposed to be civilized. We're supposed to go to work every day. We're supposed to be nice to our friends and send Christmas cards to our parents.


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And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things.



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'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.



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And the walls became the world all around.



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There must be more to life than having everything.



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I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.



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Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.



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I wish you all good things. Live your life, live your life, live your life.



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It is Hell, of course, that makes priests powerful, not Heaven, for after thousands of years of so-called civilization fear remains the one common denominator of mankind



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