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Shel Silverstein has 134 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
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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,'…
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If you're a bird, be an early bird. But if you're a worm, sleep late.
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How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em.
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I would hope that people, no matter what age, would find something to identify with in my books, pick one up and…
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Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point…
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G'bye, I'm going out to play!
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God says to me with a kind of smile, "Hey how would you like to be God awhile And steer the world?"…
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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…
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Beware of being the roller / When there's nothing left to roll
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Did you hear 'bout Ticklish Tom? He got tickled by his mom. Wiggled and giggled and fell on the floor, . .…
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I can be someone's and still be my own.
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