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" Adults are obsolete children. "
Children
Age
Obsolete
" A person's a person, no matter how small. "
Small
Matter
How
" Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. "
Smile
Because
Cry
" Every once in a while, I get mad. 'The Lorax' came out of my being angry. The ecology books I'd read were dull... In 'The Lorax,' I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might. "
Fall
Angry
Think
" Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. "
Laugh
You
Looking
" From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere. "
Funny
Funny Things
Here
" Fun is good. "
Good
Fun
" Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it. "
Suited
Hollywood
I Am
" How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon? "
Here
Goodness
Late
" I am not a consecutive writer. "
I Am
Am
Writer
" I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells. "
Cells
Brain
Nonsense
" I meant what I said and I said what I meant. "
Said
Meant
" 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. "
Go
Back
Drawing
" I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I'll probably... drop writing children's books and become a political cartoonist again. "
Children
Politics
Thinking
" I've heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I've brought a big bat. I'm all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me! "
Now
Ahead
Me
" I was saving the name of 'Geisel' for the Great American Novel. "
Saving
American
Great
" Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store. "
Christmas
Come
Maybe
" Only you can control your future. "
Future
Control
Your
" 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. "
You
Always
Book
" Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child. "
Wish
Sometimes
Child
" Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act. "
Care
Act
Wisdom
" The main problem with writing in verse is, if your fourth line doesn't come out right, you've got to throw four lines away and figure out a whole new way to attack the problem. So the mortality rate is terrific. "
Writing
Problem
New
" The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. "
Know
You
Learn
" 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. "
Book
Writing
You Can Do It
" Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try! "
Right
Think
Try
" Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one. "
Good
Today
Another
" Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you! "
Alive
Today
True
" Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. "
Better
You
Someone
" 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. "
Been
Your
You
" Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I'm doing, I always tell myself, 'You can do better than this.' "
Doing
Better
Always
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