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If there is a book you want to read but isn`t written yet,write it.

Shel Silverstein

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Shel Silverstein
Age: 66 †
Born: 1932
Born: September 25
Died: 1999
Died: May 10
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Sheldon Allan Silverstein
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Although I cannot see your face As you flip these poems awhile, Somewhere from some far-off place I hear you laughing--and I smile.
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We're all worth the same When we turn off the light.
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Don't be dependent on anyone else. I want to go everywhere, look at, and listen to everything. You can go crazy with some of the wonderful stuff there is in life.
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If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough.
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You'd better get your laugh while you're making your point, or you won't be doing it very long.
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Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.
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FROZEN DREAM I'll take the dream I had last night And put it in my freezer, So someday long and far away When I'm an old grey geezer, I'll take it out and thaw it out, This lovely dream I've frozen, And boil it up and sit me down A dip my old cold toes in.
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There is a place where the sidewalk ends, And before the street begins, And there the grass grows soft and white, And there the sun burns crimson bright, And there the moon-bird rests from his flight To cool in the peppermint wind.
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I was so lucky that I didn't have anyone to copy, be impressed by. I had developed my own style, I was creating before I knew there was a Thurber, a Benchley, a Price and a Steinberg. I never saw their work until I was around thirty.
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Beware of being the roller / When there's nothing left to roll
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Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.
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INVISIBLE BOY And here we see the invisible boy In his lovely invisible house, Feeding a piece of invisible cheese To a little invisible mouse. Oh, what a beautiful picture to see! Will you draw an invisible picture for me?
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What did the carrot say to the wheat? Lettuce rest, I'm feeling beet.
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It's amazing the difference A bit of sky can make.
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G'bye, I'm going out to play!
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We can't hold hands― Someone might see. Won't you please Hold toes with me?
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She had blue skin, And so did he. He kept it hid And so did she. They searched for blue Their whole life through, Then passed right by- And never knew.
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If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough!
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Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth.
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... and she loved a boy very, very much-- even more than she loved herself.
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