Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.
SHEL SILVERSTEINEverything isn’t everything.
More Shel Silverstein Quotes
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If the track is tough and the hill is rough, thinking you can just ain’t enough.
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Whatever you are is all okay. I don’t like you anyway.
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The baby bat Screamed out in fright, turn on the dark, I’m afraid of the light.
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How much good inside a day? Depends on how good you live ’em. How much love inside a friend? Depends on how much you give ’em.
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Anything is possible. Anything can be.
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Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.
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There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, so just give me a happy middle And a very happy start.
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There is a place where the sidewalk ends.
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Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’t, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me, Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
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And the boy loved the tree, very much. And the tree was happy.
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But all the magic I have known I’ve had to make it myself.
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When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?
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Many leaves one tree.
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I know a way to stay friends forever, there’s really nothing to it, I tell you what to do, and you do it.
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And if I say this is a wonderful poem, Is that exaggeration?
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