“Let the wild rumpus start!”

— Maurice Sendak, book Where the Wild Things Are

Variant: "And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start!"
Source: Where the Wild Things Are (1963)

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American illustrator and writer of children's books 1928–2012

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