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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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A good book written for children can be read by adults
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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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What you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.
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You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.
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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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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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Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality.
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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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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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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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Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.
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It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.
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There is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye.
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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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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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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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I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit.
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Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.
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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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There are no wrong roads to anywhere.
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