Quotes
 Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You. The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you`ll go.
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I am a zizzer zazzer zuzz as you can plainly see.
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I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
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You know you`re in love when you can`t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
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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.
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And will you succeed?
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Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
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I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. 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.
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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don`t matter and those who matter don`t mind.
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Today is your day, your mountain is waiting, so get on your way.
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Don`t cry because it`s over. Smile because it happened.
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A person`s a person, no matter how small.
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Young cat, if you keep your eyes open enough, oh, the stuff you would learn! The most wonderful stuff!
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Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.
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(When asked why he had no children): You keep having kids, I`ll keep writing books for them.
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On the rumors that he disliked children: "Well, like anyone you know, there are good kids and there are creeps. And I like the good ones and I don`t like the creeps."
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Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don`t matter and those who matter don`t mind.
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I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.
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I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It`s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life`s realities.
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Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It`s not.
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If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn`t show up.
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I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant`s faithful, one hundred percent.
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Don`t cry because it`s over, smile because it happened.
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Trivia
Before working on the children's books that would make him world famous, he made scuptures of fantastic animals in the form of taxidermist-mounted heads. Some of the creatures' surreal details would later appear in illustrations in his later books.
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Wrote "Green Eggs and Ham" on a bet to write a book with 50 words or less.
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The music for "The Cat in the Hat Song Book," a book of Seuss-penned lyrics with music for young singers published by Random House, was written by Eugene Poddany.
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Seuss (his mother's maiden name) is pronounced to rhyme with "voice." Not with "loose" as it commonly is.
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His first children's book, "And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street" (1937), was rejected by over 20 publishers.
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During the early 1940s, he was a political cartoonist for PM, a daily News York newspaper that was noted for its left-wing politics, superior production quality and the fact that it carried no advertising. A book of his political cartoons was published a few years ago.
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In the late 1980s, he wanted to get his book "The Cat In The Hat" made into a movie, his choices for the role of the title character were Robin Williams, Steve Martin, John Candy, or Eddie Murphy. In 2003, his book was made into a movie with none of those playing the title character.
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Was a recluse, spending much of his time alone in his studio.
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Worked as a commercial artist and was known for his humorous spot drawings for many Standard Oil products, most famously Flit bug spray.
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Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors." New Revision Series, Vol. 132, pp. 162-167 (as Theodor Seuss Geisel). Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
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Received his star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame to commemorate what would have been his 100th birthday. (March 2004)
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As a schoolboy during World War I, his classmates nicknamed him "The Kaiser" due to his German ancestry.
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Of his many works, only four could truly be called political. "The Lorax" was an parable on short-sighted exploitation of natural resources, "The Butter Battle Book" was a commentary on the arms race, "The Sneetches" dealt with racism and "Yertle the Turtle" himself was representative of Hitler and the Third Reich.
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In 1942, he was placed in charge of the Animation Division of the Armed Forces Motion Picture unit by Colonel Frank Capra. Under his administration, a series of instructional cartoons featuring the character Private Snafu (an unofficial acronym for "Situation Normal, All [Fouled] Up") were produced from 1942 to 1945. Snafu's concept and name were created by Capra, and the character designed by Art Heineman & Chuck Jones. Interestingly enough, the voice of Pvt. Snafu is none other than Mel Blanc, the voice of most of the characters from the Warner Brothers stable. The cartoons were animated by Warner Bros., United Productions of America (UPA), and Harman-Ising Studios. The films had a unique saltiness to dialog and content (with the occasional "Hell" or "Damn"), but since these were instructional films made for the biweekly "Army-Navy Screen Magazine" newsreel, they were exempt from Hayes Office restrictions. Although uncredited, Seuss wrote a few of the cartoons, since much of the dialog is written in "Seussian" rhyme, and several characters resemble the illustrations from his books. A second series of instructional cartoons for the Navy, featuring Private Snafu's brother, Seaman Tarfu (an acronym for "Things Are Really [Fouled] Up"), was planned, but the end of WWII brought an end to the series, and only one of these shorts was produced. 24 Private Snafu shorts were produced in total.
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Two of his works have been translated into Latin: "The Cat in the Hat" ("Cattus Petasatus") and "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" ("Quomodo Invidiosulus Nomine Grinchus Christi Natalem Abrogaverit").
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The University of California, San Diego renamed its main library in 1995 to the Geisel Library in honor of Audrey and Theodor Geisel, both La Jolla residents. The library maintains a 8,500 item collection of the works of Dr. Seuss, with items ranging from 1919 to 1991.
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Is a brother in the fraternity Sigma Phi Epsilon.
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His Cat in the Hat is shown on a USA 33¢ commemorative postage stamp, in the sheet of stamps commemorating the 1950s in the Celebrate the Century Series, issued 26 May 1999. The inscription reads "Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat".
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Pictured on a USA 37¢ commemorative postage stamp, issued 2 march 2004 (100th anniversary of birth). The stamp also depicts six characters created by Seuss: the Cat in the Hat; the Grinch; the Glotz (or the identical Klotz) from the book "Oh Say Can You Say?" and three characters from the book "I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew," the Skritz, the unnamed "young fellow," and the Skrink.
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Was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon national fraternity (New Hampshire Alpha chapter - Dartmouth College).
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Supposedly wrote "The Cat in the Hat" on a bet. His publisher, Bennett Cerf, gave Seuss a list of 100 words with the stipulation that he use only those words in writing a book. Published in 1957, "Cat in the Hat" became Dr. Seuss's all-time biggest seller. The following year, Seuss, Cerf, and Cerf's wife, inspired by the books' success, began the Beginner Books series that continues to the present day, with entertaining, elementary-level books by Seuss and other authors.
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An unpublished 1973 manuscript for "My Many Colored Days" had no illustrations. "Dr. Seuss" had written that he hoped "a great color artist who will not be dominated by me" would illustrate the book, with a "new art style and pattern of thinking." The book was published in 1999 with abstract artwork by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher.
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During World War II, Geisel joined the US Army and was sent to Hollywood. Captain Geisel would write for Frank Capra's Signal Corps Unit (for which he won the Legion of Merit) and do documentaries. Geisel recieved an Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Documentary (Short Subject) in 1945 for his writing and production of the propaganda piece Hitler Lives (1945) (a/k/a Your Job in Germany (1945) and in 1947 for Best Documentary (Feature) for Design for Death (1947)).
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Attended Oxford University, 1926-1928.
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Never had any children of his own.
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