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Shel Silverstein

When I was younger, I wasn’t making it, and I was mad at everybody who was.

– Shel Silverstein

Shel Silverstein

I can write a poem in 10 minutes. I like writing songs; I can write songs in 5 or 10 minutes. My concentration seems very short.

– Shel Silverstein

Shel Silverstein

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

Shel Silverstein

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

Shel Silverstein

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

Shel Silverstein

There was a lot about the military that I thought was pretty silly, but these cartoons weren’t meant to take a poke at anybody or anything. They were meant to make people laugh.

– Shel Silverstein

Shel Silverstein

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

Shel Silverstein

People are always giving you credit for really wanting to say more than you said.

– Shel Silverstein

Shel Silverstein

If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That’s enough.

– Shel Silverstein

Shel Silverstein

I myself do not believe in explaining anything.

– Shel Silverstein

Shel Silverstein

I’m free to leave… go wherever I please, do whatever I want; I believe everyone should live like that. Don’t be dependent on anyone else – man, woman, child, or dog.

– Shel Silverstein

Shel Silverstein

I couldn’t play ball. I couldn’t dance. Luckily, the girls didn’t want me. Not much I could do about that. So I started to draw and to write. By the time I got to where I was attracting girls, I was already into work, and it was more important to me.

– Shel Silverstein

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