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"And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start!"

— Maurice Sendak Where the Wild Things Are (1963)

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When you hide another story in a story, that’s the story I am telling the children.

We've educated children to think that spontaneity is inappropriate.

If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.

There must be more to life than having everything!

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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