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Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.

Norton Juster

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Norton Juster
Age: 91 †
Born: 1929
Born: June 2
Died: 2021
Died: March 8
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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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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.
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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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There is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye.
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The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way.
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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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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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You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.
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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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Freedom is not a license for chaos.
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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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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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I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting
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You must never feel badly about making mistakes.
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And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.
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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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It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.
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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 remember, also, added the Princess of Sweet Rhyme, that many places you would like to see are just off the map and many things you want to know are just out of sight or a little beyond your reach. But someday you'll reach them all, for what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.
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