"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the……" — Shel Silverstein
"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be."
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Shel Silverstein
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132 Quotes by Shel Silverstein
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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