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There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.

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Norton Juster
Age: 91 †
Born: 1929
Born: June 2
Died: 2021
Died: March 8
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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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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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Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality.
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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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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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...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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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 write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.
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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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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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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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