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Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.
Norton Juster
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Norton Juster
Age: 91 †
Born: 1929
Born: June 2
Died: 2021
Died: March 8
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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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...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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One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times.
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They all looked very much like the residents of any small valley to which you've never been.
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There is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye.
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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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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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Why not? That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.
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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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Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?
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The way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from.
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Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.
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You must never feel badly about making mistakes.
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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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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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There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.
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Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.
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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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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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