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 SILVERSTEINI know a way to stay friends forever, there’s really nothing to it, I tell you what to do, and you do it.
More Shel Silverstein Quotes
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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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Make it so good and so clear that it doesn’t need any further explanation.
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Everything isn’t everything.
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Sometimes I get so depressed about what I haven’t done.
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But all the magic I have known I’ve had to make it myself.
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I can be somebody’s and still be my own.
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Once I spoke the language of the flowers, Once I understand each word the caterpillar said, Once I smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings.
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If you are a dreamer come sit by my fire, for we have some flax-golden tails to spin, come in, come in.
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And if I say this is a wonderful poem, Is that exaggeration?
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And the tree was happy.
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This boat that we just built is just fine – and don’t try to tell us it’s not the sides and the back are divine – It’s the bottom I guess we forgot.
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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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And the boy loved the tree, very much. And the tree was happy.
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It’s all the same to the clam.
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And he didn’t really know where he was going, but he did know he was going somewhere because you really have to go somewhere, don’t you?
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