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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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Norton Juster
Age: 91 †
Born: 1929
Born: June 2
Died: 2021
Died: March 8
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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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Many of the things which can never be, often are.
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What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.
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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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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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And remember, also, added the Princess of Sweet Rhyme, that many places you would like to see are just off the map and many things you want to know are just out of sight or a little beyond your reach. But someday you'll reach them all, for what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.
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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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It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.
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If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.
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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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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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Freedom is not a license for chaos.
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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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But I suppose there's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open.
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You see. . . it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go nowhere, which was just where we were going when you came along. Would you care to join us?
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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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Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. I imagine by now it's quite rusty.
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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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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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