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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.
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 simple. A simile is just a mode of comparison employing 'as' and 'like' to reveal the hidden character or essence of whatever we want to describe, and through the use of fancy, association, contrast, extension, or imagination, to enlarge our understanding or perception of human experience and observation.
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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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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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Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.
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Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.
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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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Since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking.
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Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.
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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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Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality.
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Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?
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That's the way most everyone gets here. It's really quite simple: every time you decide something without having a good reason, you jump to Conclusions whether you like it or not. It's such an easy trip to make that I've been here hundreds of times.
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The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. “You’ll find,” he remarked gently, “that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that’s hardly worth the effort.
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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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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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There are no wrong roads to anywhere.
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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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Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.
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The way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from.
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