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The way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from.
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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Many of the things which can never be, often are.
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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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I think really good books can be read by anybody.
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And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.
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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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Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.
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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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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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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, 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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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 you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.
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You must never feel badly about making mistakes.
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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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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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Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.
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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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Oh dear, all those words again, thought Milo as he climbed into the wagon with Tock and the cabinet members. How are you going to make it move? It doesn't have a-- Be very quiet, advised the duke, for it goes without saying.
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