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Self Portrait of an Artist Worrying About His Next Book
It’s facinating that this 1959 painting was done two years after The Cat in the Hat and How the Grinch Stole Christmasbooks were published in 1957. Despite their success, Seuss painted a portrait of himself worrying about his next book. One year later, he overcame self-doubt and wrote Green Eggs and Ham, the third best selling book in the English language according to Random House Inc.
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And he spends the remainder of his time sailing through space in total bliss… and peace.
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“[In the desert, you see, there is everything and nothing.’
“‘Yes, but explain——’]
“‘Well,’ he said, with an impatient gesture, ‘God is there, man is not.’”
— Honoré de Balzac, from “A Passion in the Desert” (via the-final-sentence)
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