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• 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

  Beautiful, World, Ready

  "'Fresh Air' Remembers Author Maurice Sendak". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, nhpr.org. June 10, 2015.

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• Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.

  Maurice Sendak

  Mother, Children, Boys

  "Maurice Sendak and childhood — we ate it up, we loved it". www.washingtonpost.com. May 8, 2012.

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• And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.

  Maurice Sendak

  Lonely, Kings, Max

  Maurice Sendak (1964). “Where the wild things are”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• You mustn’t give your heart to a wild thing. The more you do, the stronger they get, until they’re strong enough to run into the woods or fly into a tree. And then to a higher tree and then to the sky.

  Holly Golightly

  Running, Strong, Heart

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• There must be more to life than having everything.

  Maurice Sendak

  Life, Environmental, Materialism

  Maurice Sendak, William Knowlton Zinsser (1998). “Worlds of Childhood: The Art and Craft of Writing for Children”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

  Maurice Sendak

  Purpose, Conjunctions, Knows

  "Now" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. March 12, 2004.

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• That's the trouble with loving a wild thing: You're always left watching the door.

  Edith Pattou

  Doors, Trouble, Left

  Edith Pattou (2014). “North Child”, p.16, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

  Wendell Berry

  Grace, World, Still Waters

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.79, Counterpoint Press

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• No matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself

  Audrey Hepburn

  Life, Running, Free Spirit

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• For most of the wild things on earth, the future must depend on the conscience of mankind.

  Archie Carr

  Earth, Environment, Mankind

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• I don't know what the big issue is about a kiss with Neve Campbell in Wild Things. It's a role, and I think a bigger issue is made out of it. It was a part I took and it's what the character did, so I did it.

  Denise Richards

  Character, Kissing, Thinking

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• A wild thing may say wild things.

  Abigail Williams

  May

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• It is upsetting that many people don't seem to observe what's happening to the environment, what's happening in terms of global warming, the loss of habitats and wild things.

  Joanne Woodward

  Loss, People, Upset

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• There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television, and the chance to find a pasque-flower is a right as inalienable as free speech.

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, Flower, Opportunity

  "A Sand County almanac, and Sketches here and there: illus. by Charles W. Schwartz".

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• I'm a menace to society,
  But girls in biker shorts are so fly to me.
  After the date, I'mma want to do the wild thing...
  You're talkin' lobster? I'm thinkin' Burger King.

  Ice Cube

  Girl, Kings, Rap

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• You know, in Fairyland-Above they said that the underworld was full of devils and dragons. But it isn’t so at all! Folk are just folk, wherever you go, and it’s only a nasty sort of person who thinks a body’s a devil just because they come from another country and have different notions. It’s wild and quick and bold down here, but I like wild things and quick things and bold things, too.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Country, Thinking, Dragons

  Catherynne M. Valente (2012). “The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There”, p.247, Macmillan

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• All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.

  Willa Cather

  Sports, Voice, Captivity

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.315, Simon and Schuster

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• It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost—not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions. All of which is to say: stories, too, are wild things.

  David Wroblewski

  Ink, Stories, Firsts

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• I guess, a lot of people think is a long time between albums. It was needed for me. I went through a lot to get the album ["Wild Things"] finished. I actually went through a lot to even get the album started.

  Ladyhawke

  Thinking, Long, People

  Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.

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• Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its nature and something unfortunately was hurt. The same is true of Denna.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Summer, Hurt, Mean

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• it was love, of course, though I didn't know it then and Finn was both its subject and object. He accepted love instinctively, without responsibility or conditions, like a wild thing glimpsed through trees.

  Meg Rosoff

  Responsibility, Tree, Accepted

  Meg Rosoff (2008). “What I Was”, p.45, Penguin UK

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• I got to a happier point and then started making a record [Wild Things]. I don't mind at all that it sounds like LA, because LA was integral to me feeling better. Seeing the sunshine and all that other sorts of stuff was definitely a huge part in why the album sounds like it sounds.

  Ladyhawke

  Sunshine, Feel Better, Feelings

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, Taken, Sunset

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.7, Oxford University Press, USA

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• But who knows what she spoke to the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all her life seemed shrinking, and the walls of her bower closing in about her, a hutch to trammel some wild thing in?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wall, Night, Darkness

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.849, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In its jolly mission to expose the dark underbelly of the children’s book world, Wild Things! turns up stories I’ve been hearing noised about for ages, but with a lot more detail and authenticity. The stories may not be quite as sordid as my own imagination had conjured up—although a few of them are—because there’s no denying that this field is full of mostly nice people!—but it’s all fun and a great read for anyone interested in both children’s books and the collection of people who make them.

  Paul O. Zelinsky

  Children, Fun, Nice

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