Dr. Seuss Quotes
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You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
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Every once in a while, I get mad. 'The Lorax' came out of my being angry. The ecology books I'd read were dull... In 'The Lorax,' I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might.
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'You're going to be roped! And you're going to be caged! And, as for your dust speck – hah! That we shall boil in a hot steaming kettle of Beezle-Nut Oil!'
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Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
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Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
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Say! I like green eggs and ham! I do! I like them, Sam-I-Am!
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I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments.
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You make 'em, I amuse 'em.
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Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
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Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.
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The main problem with writing in verse is, if your fourth line doesn't come out right, you've got to throw four lines away and figure out a whole new way to attack the problem. So the mortality rate is terrific.
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Young cat! If you keep Your eyes open enough, Oh, the stuff you will learn! The most wonderful stuff!
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I am not a consecutive writer.
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I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I'll probably... drop writing children's books and become a political cartoonist again.
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you'll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut
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And that is a story that no one can beat, When I say that I saw it on Mulberry Street.
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So, on beyond Z! It's high time you were shown That you really don't know All there is to be known.
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Oh the things you can find If you don't stay behind!
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The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
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That's why I say, 'Duckie! Don’t grumble! Don’t stew! Some critters are much-much, oh, ever so much-much, so muchly much-much more unlucky than you!'