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Dr. Seuss
American
Writer
Born:
Mar 2
,
1904
Died:
Sep 24
,
1991
Good
Own
Problem
Writing
You
Your
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Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Dr. Seuss
Smile
Over
Cry
Because
Happened
Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.
Dr. Seuss
Christmas
Thought
Come
Maybe
Store
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
Dr. Seuss
You
Better
Nothing
Cares
Unless
Someone
Like
Lot
Get
Going
Whole
Awful
Awful Lot
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
Dr. Seuss
Today
Birthday
You
Alive
No-One
True
Truer
Than
Who
A person's a person, no matter how small.
Dr. Seuss
Matter
Small
How
Person
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.
Dr. Seuss
You
Yourself
Shoes
Own
Guy
Direction
Steer
Head
Feet
Know
Go
Brains
Any
Where
Decide
Your
Choose
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?
Dr. Seuss
Time
Goodness
Before
Late
Soon
How
June
Get
Did
December
Afternoon
Here
Night
Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act.
Dr. Seuss
Life
Great
Remember
Care
Tact
Step
Balancing
Act
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!
Dr. Seuss
Me
You
Big
Bat
Kind
See
Some
Brought
More
Troubles
Come
Ready
Heard
Than
Going
Behind
Now
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.
Dr. Seuss
Life
You
Looking
Living
Way
Telescope
Laugh
Through
Wrong
Enables
End
Realities
Fantasy
Ingredient
Necessary
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
Dr. Seuss
You
Will
More
Know
Learn
Read
Go
Places
Things
You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.
Dr. Seuss
Good
You
Pretty
Pretty Good
Good Shape
Shape
Only you can control your future.
Dr. Seuss
Future
You
Control
Only
Your
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
Dr. Seuss
You
Try
Think
Imagination
High
Only
Left
Up
Oh
Low
Right
Thinks
Fun is good.
Dr. Seuss
Good
Fun
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
Dr. Seuss
Teacher
Alone
You
Yourself
Learn
Lot
Get
Sitting
Going
Room
Teachers
Help
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.
Dr. Seuss
Angry
Evil
Fall
Every
Think
Books
Once
Mad
Out
Ecology
Attack
Read
Came
Were
Dull
Get
Being
Where
While
Might
Chips
Things
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.
Dr. Seuss
You
You Can Do It
Book
Writing
Problem
Feeling
Tremendously
Kids
Easy
Knocked
Like
Read
Forces
Because
Sound
Friday
Verse
Off
Stop
The Problem With
Afternoon
Successful
Helps
Thing
Rainy
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.
Dr. Seuss
Try
Situation
Back
Drawing
Out
Characters
Involve
Most
Go
End
In The End
Cut
Themselves
Then
Eventually
Start
Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.
Dr. Seuss
Sometimes
Wish
Own
See
Small
Make
Were
Discoveries
Child
Granddaughter
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.
Dr. Seuss
You
Few
Paper
Must
Properly
Sure
Been
May
Forms
Then
Heirs
Your
Filled
Last
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.
Dr. Seuss
You
Writing
Problem
Way
Out
Rate
Attack
Throw
Main
Mortality
New
Come
Terrific
Got
Line
Lines
Verse
New Way
Your
Figure
Whole
Away
Right
Four
Fourth
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.
Dr. Seuss
Politics
Writing
Political
Too Much
Drop
Become
Thinking
Too
Books
Out
Stay
Cartoonist
About
Because
Begin
Children
Again
Much
I am not a consecutive writer.
Dr. Seuss
Writer
Am
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