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• I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother.

  Maurice Sendak

  Brother, Writing, Simple

  "Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait Of Maurice Sendak" by Noel Murray, tv.avclub.com. October 19, 2009.

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• Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.

  Vikram Seth

  Might, Dear, Reader

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• You need to be silly to be funny.

  William Shatner

  Funny, Needs, Being Silly

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• My mother was an exuberant, silly lady.

  William Shatner

  Mother

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• You'll think this is a bit silly, but I'm a bit--well, I have a thing about birds." "What, a phobia?" "Sort of." "Well, that's the common term for an irrational fear of birds." "What do they call a rational fear of birds, then?

  Neil Gaiman

  Thinking, Bird, Irrational Fear

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• I remember being a little kid sitting in the living room with my brother and some friends from around the neighborhood, and I would sit at the piano and as they were running around the room doing different things and being silly, acting out, I would actually play the score for it - the music that went along with it.

  Mike Shinoda

  Running, Brother, Kids

  "Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda Rocks on to New Challenge: 'The Raid: Redemption' Film Score (Q&A)" by Todd Gilchrist, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 21, 2012.

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• Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth.

  Shel Silverstein

  Cute, Wise, Wisdom

  Shel Silverstein, “Tell Me”

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• When you're offered things, it makes it so much easier to be indecisive. And it's silly because you can pass on some really amazing things.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Indecisive, Easier, Really Amazing

  "Wanted: one leading man". Interview with Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. February 29, 2004.

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• My persona has always been what a man was never supposed to be. Outrageous, gregarious, crazy, silly, funny.

  Richard Simmons

  Crazy, Men, Gregarious

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• The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Life, War, Passion

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• Even now, I'm very superstitious, in silly ways. I always put my left boot on first. Or on set, I always tie my bow tie from right to left.

  Matt Smith

  Ties, Boots, Way

  "When Esquire met Doctor Who". Interview, www.esquire.co.uk. April 1, 2010.

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• The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

  Herbert Spencer

  Humor, Men, Foolish Man

  'Essays' (1891) vol. 3 'State Tamperings with Money and Banks'

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• You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Eye, Connections, Serious

  "A fan's eye view". Interview with Nick Hornby, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• I like summer. I like warmer weather and long days. I'm one of those silly people who still enjoy lying in the sun - my children are horrified!

  Danielle Steel

  Summer, Children, Lying

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• When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.

  Ben Stein

  Dad, Father, Smart

  "Ben Stein Wants You To Sleep". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2011.

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• You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.

  Gertrude Stein

  Jobs, Lying, Stupid

  Gertrude Stein (2004). “Look at Me Now and Here I Am: Writings and Lectures, 1911-1945”, Peter Owen Publishers

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• i wish the whole world was dead serious about food instead of silly rockets and machines and explosives using everybody's food money to blow their heads off anyway.

  Jack Kerouac

  Blow, Wish, Machines

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.217, Penguin

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• Even while starting out I took things very seriously; I wasn't the sort of kid that would do a doll commercial or do a series for Nickelodeon. They asked me to do silly things, and I wasn't a silly kid.

  Kristen Stewart

  Kids, Dolls, Starting Out

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• There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.

  Twyla Tharp

  Stupid, Mean, Perfectly Good

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• A girl had bidden me eat and drink and sleep, and had shown me friendship and had laughed at me and had called me a silly little boy. And this wonderful friend had talked to me of the saints and shown me that even when I had outdone myself in absurdity I was not alone.

  Hermann Hesse

  Girl, Sleep, Boys

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.101, Macmillan

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• The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact I had thought it a somewhat overrated pleasure, a brief and brutal blindness with boredom and disgust hard on its heels.

  Aleister Crowley

  Boredom, Way, Facts

  Aleister Crowley (2010). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”, p.47, Weiser Books

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• Don't ask me silly questions I won't play silly games I'm just a simple choo choo train And I'll always be the same. I only want to race along Beneath the bright blue sky And be a happy choo choo train Until the day I die.

  Stephen King

  Simple, Race, Blue

  Robin Furth, Stephen King (2006). “Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.

  Emily Bronte

  Want, Faculty, Trifles

  "Wuthering Heights".

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• What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instinct of beasts.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Angel, Half, Infinite

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1930). “The Stark Munro letters ; Danger! ; Other stories”

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• For a moment she turned in a circle, staring at her hands, which she held high and useless, close to her breast. She bobbed and shambled like an ape doing a trick, and her face was the silly, bewildered face of a joker's victim. And yet she could make no move that was not beautiful. Her trapped terror was more lovely than any joy that Molly had ever seen, and that was the most terrible thing about it.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Beautiful, Moving, Hands

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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