Dr. Seuss Quotes
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301. “I don’t like audiences, I prefer my mistakes in private.”

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302. “If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn’t show up.”

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303. “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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304. “A kid is a guy I never wrote down to. He’s interested in what I say if I make it interesting.”

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305. “You can’t dribble on bow ties.”

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306. “I’m sorry to say so but, sadly, it’s true that Bang-ups and Hang-ups can happen to you.”

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307. “Think! You can think any think that you wish...”

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308. “Why are they sad and glad and bad? I do not know, go ask your dad.”

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309. “It all began with a shoe on the wall. A shoe on the wall shouldn’t be there at all.”

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310. “My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It s the letter I use to spell yuzz a ma tuzz. You ll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond Z and start poking around.”

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311. “Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting.”

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312. “You won’t lag behind, because you’ll have the speed. You’ll pass the whole gang and you’ll soon take the lead. Wherever you fly, you’ll be best of the best. Wherever you go, you will top all the rest. Except when you don’t. Because, sometimes, you won’t.”

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313. “I said, “I do not fear those pants with nobody inside them.” I said, and said, and said those words. I said them but I lied them.”

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314. “I know I am in love because I am finding it difficult to fall asleep nowadays. This is because after having you around me now I find that reality is better than dreams.”

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315. “Unslumping yourself is not easily done.”

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316. “Plant a new Truffula. Treat it with care. Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air.”

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317. “Poor empty pants With nobody inside them.”

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318. “Horton, the kangaroo has sent Vlad!? Vlad? I know two Vlads. One is a cute little bunny that brings me cookies. The other is bad Vlad. Which Vlad?? Which one do you think?? Bad Vlad?? Good call.”

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319. “One fish Two fish Red fish Blue fish!”

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320. “Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.”

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321. “Children’s reading and children’s thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise. Or not rise. In these days of tension and confusion, writers are beginning to realize that books for children have a greater potential for good or evil than any other form of literature on earth.”

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322. “Sometimes a complicated question has a simple answer.”

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323. “You are you that is truer than true.”

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324. “Thank goodness for all the things you are not, thank goodness you’re not something someone forgot, and left all alone in some punkerish place, like a rusty tin coat hanger hanging in space.”

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325. “The ribbons! The wrappings! The tags! And the tinsel! The trimmings! The trappings!”

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326. “Even though we may all become extinct, we can still leave our footprint in the sand.”

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327. “Writing for children is murder. A chapter has to be boiled down to a paragraph. Every word has to count.”

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328. “He took the Who’s feast, he took the Who pudding, he took the roast beast. He cleaned out that ice box as quick as a flash. Why, the Grinch even took their last can of Who hash.”

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329. “Don’t grumble! Don’t stew! Some critters are much-much, Oh, ever so much-much So muchly much-much more unlucky than you!”

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330. “In the house, and on the street, how many, many feet you meet.”

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331. “The news just came in from the County of Keck That a very small bug by the name of Van Vleck Is yawning so wide you can look down his neck. This may not seem very important, I know, but it Is, so I’m bothering telling you so.”

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332. “You are the guy who’ll decide where to go.”

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333. “Shorth is better than length.”

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334. “It has often been said there’s so much to be read, you never can cram all those words in your head.”

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335. “Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.”

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336. “It came without ribbions, It cames without tags, It came without packages, boxes, or bags. Christmas can’t be bought from a store. Maybe Christmas means a little bit more...”

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337. “Ninety percent of the children’s books patronize the child and say there’s a difference between you and me, so you listen to this story. I, for some reason or another, don’t do that. I treat the child as an equal.”

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338. “I speak for the trees!”

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339. “My trouble was I had a mind but I couldn’t make it up!”

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340. “This book is to be read in bed.”

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341. “FICTION IS MY ADDICTION!!”

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342. “When at last we are sure, You’ve been properly pilled, Then a few paper forms, Must be properly filled. So that you and your heirs, May be properly billed.”

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343. “You are you. Now, isn’t that unpleasant?”

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