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Shel Silverstein

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


— Shel Silverstein


#enough #feels #find #his #look

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


#behind #better #care #just #little

To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something.


— Shel Silverstein


#freedom #me #something #you

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


#anybody #being #bricklayer #else #greater

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


#friends #i #know #nothing #really

You'd better get your laugh while you're making your point, or you won't be doing it very long.


— Shel Silverstein


#doing #get #laugh #long #making

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


— Shel Silverstein


#credit #giving #more #people #really

Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.


— Shel Silverstein


#commentary #humor #less #more #reflect

There's a great myth about cartoonists, writers and people that are on TV.


— Shel Silverstein


#cartoonists #great #myth #people #tv






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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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