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Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.
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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...it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.
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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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I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.
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You see, to tall men I'm a midget, and to short men I'm a giant to the skinny ones I'm a fat man, and to the fat ones I'm a thin man.
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