“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts.”

— Shel Silverstein · Courage quote

Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. — Shel Silverstein quote card
Writer, cartoonist and songwriter · 1930 – 1999

Sheldon Allan Silverstein, American writer, cartoonist and songwriter; author of the children's classics The Giving Tree, Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic, and writer of the Johnny Cash hit "A Boy Named Sue".

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