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Why not? That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.
Norton Juster
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Norton Juster
Age: 91 †
Born: 1929
Born: June 2
Died: 2021
Died: March 8
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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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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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Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.
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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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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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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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Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality.
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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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Many of the things which can never be, often are.
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I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.
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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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Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.
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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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Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.
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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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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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And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.
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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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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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I think really good books can be read by anybody.
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