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The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.
Norton Juster
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Norton Juster
Age: 91 †
Born: 1929
Born: June 2
Died: 2021
Died: March 8
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You see. . . it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go nowhere, which was just where we were going when you came along. Would you care to join us?
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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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And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.
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Why not? That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.
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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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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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When he was in school he longed to be out, and when he was out he longed to be in. On the way he thought about coming home, and coming home he thought about going. Wherever he was he wished he were somewhere else, and when he got there he wondered why he'd even bothered.
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Since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking.
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I think really good books can be read by anybody.
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I never knew words could be so confusing, Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog's ear. Only when you use a lot to say a little, answered Tock. Milo thought this was quite the wisest thing he'd heard all day.
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Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.
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There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.
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AHA! interrupted Officer Shrift, making another note in his little book. Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.
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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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If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.
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Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.
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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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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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I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit.
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