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# Maurice Sendak Passes Away
- URL: https://blog.novaugust.net/maurice-sendak-passes-away/
- Published: 2012-05-08T22:56:03.000Z
- Updated: 2012-05-08T22:56:03.000Z
- Author: Matt Enlow
- Tags: NPR, post, #Import 2026-06-21 14:43

"I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more. ... What I dread is the isolation. ... There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready."

Maurice Sendak has left behind at least one beautiful thing that I've known since before I could even try to read it to myself - *Where the Wild Things Are*.

via [Fresh Air Remembers Author Maurice Sendak : NPR](http://www.npr.org/2012/05/08/152248901/fresh-air-remembers-author-maurice-sendak?sc=fb&cc=fp&ref=blog.novaugust.net).