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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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Norton Juster
Age: 91 †
Born: 1929
Born: June 2
Died: 2021
Died: March 8
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Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things? You'd have to say Robert plus John equals four, and if the four's name were Albert, things would be hopeless.
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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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I never knew words could be so confusing, Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog's ear. Only when you use a lot to say a little, answered Tock. Milo thought this was quite the wisest thing he'd heard all day.
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You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.
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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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I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth
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You must never feel badly about making mistakes.
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Do you think it will rain? Milo: But I thought you were the Weather Man? No, I'm the Whether man, for it is more important to know whether there will be weather, whether than what the weather will be.
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Why not? That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.
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And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.
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It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.
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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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The way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from.
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Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.
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There is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye.
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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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Many of the things which can never be, often are.
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You see, years ago I was just an ordinary bee minding my own business, smelling flowers all day, and occasionally picking up part-time work in people's bonnets. Then one day I realized that I'd never amount to anything without an education and, being naturally adept at spelling, I decided that—
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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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