A biography for Dr. Seusshasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“It has often been saidthere’s so much to be read,you never can cramall those words in your head.So the writer who breedsmore words than he needsis making a chorefor the reader who reads.That's why my belief isthe briefer the brief is,the greater the sighof the reader's relief is.And that's why your bookshave such power and strength.You publish with shorth!(Shorth is better than length.)”
“Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!”
“If you want to catch beasts you don't see every day,You have to go places quite out of the way,You have to go places no others can get to.You have to get cold and you have too get wet, too.”
“When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED.”
“I meant what I said and I said what I meant.”
“Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.”
“From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.”
“I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.”
“Only you can control your future.”
“You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.”
“I was saving the name of 'Geisel' for the Great American Novel.”
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
“It's not about what it is, but about what it can become.”
“ככל שאתה קורא יותר, כך יש יותר דברים שאתה יודע. ככל שאתה לומד יותר, כך תלך ליותר מקומות.”
“אהבת אמת זה כשאתה לא מצליח להירדם כי המציאות שלך טובה מחלומותייך.”
“ אומרים שאני מיושן וחי בעבר, אבל לפעמים אני חושב שההתקדמות מתקדמת מהר מדי.”
“היום אתה אתה, זה יותר אמיתי מאמיתי. אין אף אחד בחיים שהוא יותר אתה מאשר אתה.”
“לפעמים אתה לעולם לא תדע את הערך של הרגע עד שיהפוך לזיכרון.”
“אתה תחמיץ את הדברים הטובים ביותר אם תישאר עם עיניים עצומות.”