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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?

— Maurice Sendak NOW interview (2004)

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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!

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

Where the Wild Things Are (1963)

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Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?

George Bernard Shaw Saint Joan (1923)

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence, from Jerusalem, of a lunatic asylum.

Havelock Ellis

Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law [this quote is referring to English Common Law].

Thomas Jefferson Vol. 1 Whether Christianity is Part of the Common Law (1764)

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