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There are no wrong roads to anywhere.

Norton Juster

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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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Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations, but my job is to hurry them along whether they like it or not.
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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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Many of the things which can never be, often are.
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Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.
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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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AHA! interrupted Officer Shrift, making another note in his little book. Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.
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The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.
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The way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from.
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A good book written for children can be read by adults
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I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit.
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You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.
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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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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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It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.
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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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You may not see it now, said the Princess of Pure Reason, looking knowingly at Milo's puzzled face, but whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way.
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But I suppose there's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open.
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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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There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.
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