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Norton Juster Inspirational Quotes (58)

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Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?
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Do you think it will rain? Milo: But I thought you were the Weather Man? No, I'm the Whether man, for it is more important to know whether there will be weather, whether than what the weather will be.
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I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit.
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Many of the things which can never be, often are.
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But I suppose there's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open.
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You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.
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One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times.
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There is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye.
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I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.
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Oh dear, all those words again, thought Milo as he climbed into the wagon with Tock and the cabinet members. How are you going to make it move? It doesn't have a-- Be very quiet, advised the duke, for it goes without saying.
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You must never feel badly about making mistakes.
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There are no wrong roads to anywhere.
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He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory.
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That's the way most everyone gets here. It's really quite simple: every time you decide something without having a good reason, you jump to Conclusions whether you like it or not. It's such an easy trip to make that I've been here hundreds of times.
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A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.
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The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. “You’ll find,” he remarked gently, “that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that’s hardly worth the effort.
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I think really good books can be read by anybody.
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Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.
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If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.
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if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.
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A good book written for children can be read by adults
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We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if they make sense or nonsense.
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You may not see it now, said the Princess of Pure Reason, looking knowingly at Milo's puzzled face, but whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way.
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You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.
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