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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Chicagoland / Lit & Lectures / Books "I got to Chicago and I was a complete failure."

Posted by Whet Moser on 09.10.09 at 02:37 PM

"He looked through a hundred cartoons, the greatest ones ever drawn - at nineteen, I was doing only great cartoons - and he bought none."

Shel Silverstein on trying to make it in NYC, via Sarah Weinman.

Tags: Shel Silverstein, Collier's, Gurney Williams, Sarah Weinman

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