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Shel Silverstein

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Ricky was "L" but he's home with the flu, Lizzie, our "O," had some homework to do, Mitchell, "E" prob'ly got lost on the way, So I'm all of the love that could make it today.


— Shel Silverstein


#love

Whatever you are is all okay. I don't like you anyway.


— Shel Silverstein


#change

If you're nasty, I won't fight. If you're rough, well that's just you. If you're mean, that's alright too. Whatever you are is all okay. I don't like you anyway.


— Shel Silverstein


#change #don-t #my #on #change

I was hoping that perhaps I could roll with you..." "You cannot roll with me," said the Big O, "but perhaps you can roll by yourself.


— Shel Silverstein


#relationships #self-confidence #inspirational

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


#cute #graceful #i #kind #me

What you've got to say, you say.


— Shel Silverstein


#say #you

Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.


— Shel Silverstein


#explain #itself #muddle #never #never explain

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


#beef #believe #corn #expect #fly

If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough!


— Shel Silverstein


#hill #just #rough #thinking #tough

I myself do not believe in explaining anything.


— Shel Silverstein


#believe #explaining #i #myself






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Silverstein composed original music for several films and displayed a musical versatility in these projects playing guitar piano saxophone and trombone. He told Jean Mercier of PubliShel Silversteinrs Weekly: "When I was a kid—12 to 14 around there—I would much rather have been a good baseball player or a hit with the girls but I couldn't play ball. Employing a sketchbook format with typewriter-styled captions he documented his own experiences at such locations as a New Jersey nudist colony the Chicago White Sox training camp San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district Fire Island Mexico London Paris Spain and Africa.

Sheldon Allan "Shel" Silverstein (September 25 1930 – May 8/9 1999) was an American poet singer-songwriter cartoonist screenwriter and author of children's books. He styled himself as Uncle Shelby in his children's books. Translated into more than 30 languages his books have sold over 20 million copies.

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