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The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.

Norton Juster

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Norton Juster
Age: 91 †
Born: 1929
Born: June 2
Died: 2021
Died: March 8
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Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. I imagine by now it's quite rusty.
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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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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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What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.
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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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Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.
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