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mrmaxpower
These are all great quotes to settle down and be alone. The aren't false. But they aren't true.
Piornet
"I will fuck your mouth so goddamn hard" -my children's book that Simon & Schuster keeps passing on :`(
knickknackpaddywhackgiveadogabone
can someone do this but with just harry potter quotes please.
CaesoVash
"You never truly fuck up unless you don't try." - Cr1TiKaL
TheGingerBeardedBiologist
Many of these books aren't really for children. Take Alice in Wonderland for example. Carroll wrote a different kids version.
LoquaciousLizard
I have read 8 of these.
LurkMasterP
L. Frank *Baum
natasharostova
I love children's books
TheGhostofElizabethShue
"What day is it?" asked Winnie the Pooh. "It's today," squeaked Piglet. "Jesus Christ, you know what I fucking mean." said Pooh.
MoreCrustyJugglers
C.S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew - awesome quote. Great book.
frizzylizard
13 is from the witches not Matilda
ldt123
+1 for Anne of Green Gables
Pettranella
"It only takes One."
ThatDwarfWhoStealsYourOpinions
My favorite YA novel ever is "The Schwa Was Here". Read it if you haven't got the chance.
PostHoc
Every book is a children's book if the kid can read - Mitch
Showhermyoface
"Go the f&#k to sleep" - Adam Mansbach
SchrodingersDongers
Would the real #k please stand up?
swimbikerunrepeatswimbikerunrepeatswimbiwhatwasidoing
Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson
IamTooYoungToBeThisHungover
Got "Promise me" tattooed on my wrist because of #2. Best friend has depression & anxiety & I remind her of that quote every time shes down
Ulmo
If I have someone else's brain and shoes in my back pack, which direction am I being steered?
Loelita
Jail probably.
Ulmo
I made this comment entirely because I wanted someone to reply with that! Thanks!
breathofthewildside
"We are all very anxious to be understood, but there is one thing much more necessary. To understand other people." Princess and the Goblin
adeepermystery
No Velveteen rabbit?
RoboCoonie
It's almost as if childrens' books are written by adults.
DeandraReynolds
I read Charlotte's Web to my class every year, and every year I cry. Today we read the chapter where Wilbur meets Charlotte.
whooshby
That's great! I hope you do James and the Giant Peach, too.
DeandraReynolds
I do!
whooshby
My teacher read those to my class way back in the 1970s.
allaboards
No. 1 may be Dr Seuss but it's definitely not from the cat in the hat.
WillCorrectInaccuraciesForFood
Nope, it's from some guy who was asked about a seating arrangement.
badasswomenmakehistory
It's from neither Dr. Seuss nor the Cat In The Hat, though anything beyond that gets a bit murky.
snakeoilsalesman
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/12/04/those-who-mind/
kimannhd5464
Just an inspiring quote by Dr Seuss, but not from Cat in the Hat
kibbypie
I know! I keep seeing it as being from Cat in the Hat, and I've read it half a million times....
FunkyH
Is it from a later cat in the hat book? There are a few
kibbypie
It's not Cat in the Hat Comes Back....
IngrahamLincoln
No Calvin and Hobbes?
Cryolith
You could probably do an entire post just with C&H. Hell, a whole book.
Totallybadassusername
Several. Luckily, that has already been done^^
pantsbazooka
Dr Seuss was turned down over 36 times before getting published. Theo Suess Geisel.
flippywizgig
He also received a lot of backlash later, when he published The Lorax.
akroe
Why?
flippywizgig
See : controversy
flippywizgig
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lorax