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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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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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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 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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And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.
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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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It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.
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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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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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But I suppose there's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open.
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Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality.
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The way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from.
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Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.
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