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Shel Silverstein
American
Poet
About the author
If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough.
Shel Silverstein,
American
Poet
#Want
#Work
#Writer
To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something.
Shel Silverstein,
American
Poet
#Freedom
I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.
Shel Silverstein,
American
Poet
#Will
#Play
#War
#Kisses
#Hugs
You'd better get your laugh while you're making your point, or you won't be doing it very long.
Shel Silverstein,
American
Poet
He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else.
Shel Silverstein,
American
Poet
#Being
#Society
#Obligation
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.
Shel Silverstein,
American
Poet
#Truth
#Cute
Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.
Shel Silverstein,
American
Poet
#Humor
Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.
Shel Silverstein,
American
Poet
#Talking
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.
Shel Silverstein,
American
Poet
#People
#Years
#Ideas
#Reading
#Europe
#Meeting
If you're behind the times, they won't notice you. If you're right in tune with them, you're no better than they are, so they won't care much for you. Be just a little ahead of them.
Shel Silverstein,
American
Poet
#Right
#Care
If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough!
Shel Silverstein,
American
Poet
#Thinking
I myself do not believe in explaining anything.
Shel Silverstein,
American
Poet
I know a way to stay friends forever, There's really nothing to it, I tell you what to do, And you do it.
Shel Silverstein,
American
Poet
#Nothing
#Friends
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.
Shel Silverstein,
American
Poet
#Want
#People