Dr. Seuss Quotes - Page 10

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• Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.

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  Life, Interesting, Parent

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• Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

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  Children, Childhood, Adults

  "Of Sneetches and Whos and the Good Dr. Seuss: Essays on the Writings and Life of Theodor Geisel". Book by Thomas Fensch, p. 96, 1997.

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• Now, the Star-Belly Sneetches had bellies with stars. The Plain-Belly Sneetches had none upon thars.

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  Stars, Belly

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• In the house, and on the street, how many, many feet you meet.

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  Feet, House, Streets

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• 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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  Book, Matter, Messages

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All those Nupboards in the Cupboards they're good fun to have about. But that Nooth gush on my tooth brush.....Him I could do without.

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  Fun, Teeth, Cupboards

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• 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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  Writing, Kids, Interesting

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• And he, he himself, the Grinch - carved the roast beast.

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  Beast

  "Fictional character: Narrator". "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!", www.imdb.com. 1966.

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• For a host, above all, must be kind to his guests.

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  Guests, Be Kind, Host

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• You are you. Now, isn't that unpleasant?

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  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Just Being You

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• Not here not there not anywhere!

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• 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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  Said

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• The words in this book are all phooey. When you say them, your lips will make slips and back flips and your tongue may end up in Saint Looey!

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  Book, Saint, May

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• It has often been said there’s so much to be read, you never can cram all those words in your head. So the writer who breeds more words than he needs is making a chore for the reader who reads. That's why my belief is the briefer the brief is, the greater the sigh of the reader's relief is. And that's why your books have such power and strength. You publish with shorth! (Shorth is better than length.)

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  Book, Relief, Needs

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• Shorth is better than length.

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  Length

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• You make 'em, I amuse 'em. [children]

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  Children, Ems

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• 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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  Cute, Thinking, Two

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• Day Play We play all day. Night Fight We fight all night.

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  Fighting, Night, Play

  Dr. Seuss (1963). “Hop on Pop”, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• You can't build a substantial V out of turtles!

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  Turtles

  Richard H. Minear, Dr. Seuss (2013). “Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel”, p.346, The New Press

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• You're a monster, Mr. Grinch.
  Your heart's an empty hole.
  Your brain is full of spiders,
  You've got garlic in your soul.

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  Heart, Soul, Brain

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• This book is to be read in bed.

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  Book, Bed

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• I box in yellow Gox box socks.

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  Yellow, Boxes, Sock

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• The ribbons! The wrappings! The tags! And the tinsel! The trimmings! The trappings!

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  Christmas, Ribbons, Tag

  Dr. Seuss (1995). “Six by Seuss”, Prop Pub Juv

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• And what would you do if you met a jibboo?

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  Mets, Ifs

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• The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it's a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

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  Friday, Book, Writing

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