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Maurice Sendak Dies

Author of "Where the Wild Things Are," "Outside Over There," "In the Night Kitchen," and "The Nutshell Library" (Alligators All Around (An Alphabet), Chicken Soup with Rice (A Book of Months) One Was Johnny (A Counting Book) Pierre (A Cautionary Tale))

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Oh, yes. We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. We're not so far away from the gorillas and the apes, those beautiful creatures. So, of course. And then, 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 do all these things which trouble us deeply because it's so against what we naturally would want to do. And if I've done anything, I've had kids express themselves as they are, impolitely, lovingly… they don't mean any harm. They just don't know what the right way is.

And as it turns out sometimes the so-called "right way" is utterly the wrong way. What a monstrous confusion [...] I'm not Hans Christian Andersen. Nobody's gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won't have it, okay?

It's not so much his death as the poignant interview that was done.

Now who thinks there's gonna be a spike in book sales and a special edition of the recent movie in the next month?

This post has been edited by Dr. Klaus: 08 May 2012 - 09:48 PM

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Now HE'S where the wild things are

(Hell)
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He was hilarious on the Colbert Report! Like an angry, but still loveable grandfather.
Part 1:"Let me write that down; Maurice...children...'Eh.'"
Part 2:"The sad thing is I like it."
I was glad to see his view of the world of literature. Especially at the end about E books; very foreshadow-y.
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