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Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#convinced #despair #down #everything #hope

I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#capable #driver #given #i #i think

Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And there's no doubt about that. We just don't like to think about it. Certainly the men don't like to think about it. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#certainly #complicated #doubt #infinitely #just

I don't write for children. I write and someone says it's for children. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#i #i write #says #someone #write

Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#childhood #goes #something #tricky #usually

I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#child #emblem #happiness #i #mickey

I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#books #childhood #children #exposed #i

I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.' ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#i #idiot #name #says #tag

I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#being #child #creature #escape #i

I only have one subject. The question I am obsessed with is: How do children survive? ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#children #how #i #i am #obsessed