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

— Maurice Sendak

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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!

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

Where the Wild Things Are (1963)

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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