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He wasted his wishes on wishing.
Shel Silverstein
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Shel Silverstein
Age: 66 †
Born: 1932
Born: September 25
Died: 1999
Died: May 10
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We can't hold hands― Someone might see. Won't you please Hold toes with me?
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And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.
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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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I was always prepared for success but that means that I have to be prepared for failure, too.
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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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If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough!
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Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.
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Sometimes I get so depressed 'Bout what I haven't done. -NEVER
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G'bye, I'm going out to play!
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I myself do not believe in explaining anything.
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Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt.
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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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'I don't need very much now,' said the boy, 'just a quiet place to sit and rest. I am very tired.' 'Well,' said the tree, straightening herself up as much as she could, well, an old stump is good for sitting and resting. Come, Boy, sit down. Sit down and rest.'And the boy did. And the tree was happy.
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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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It was missing a piece. And it was not happy. So it set off in search of its missing piece. And as it rolled it sang this song - Oh I'm lookin' for my missin' piece I'm lookin' for my missin' piece Hi-dee-ho, here I go, Lookin' for my missin' piece.
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I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don't expect people to hand you a corn beef sandwich and wash your socks for you and unzip your fly for you.
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People are always giving you credit for really wanting to say more than you said.
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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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