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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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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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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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You must never feel badly about making mistakes.
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The way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from.
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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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Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality.
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Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.
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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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Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.
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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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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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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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