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Norton Juster
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Norton Juster
Age: 91 †
Born: 1929
Born: June 2
Died: 2021
Died: March 8
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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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Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.
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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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Why not? That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.
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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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You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.
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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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But I suppose there's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open.
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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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You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.
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Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.
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What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.
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If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.
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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 am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit.
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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 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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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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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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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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