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I think really good books can be read by anybody.
Norton Juster
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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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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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What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.
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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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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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Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.
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There is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye.
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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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They all looked very much like the residents of any small valley to which you've never been.
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A good book written for children can be read by adults
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Freedom is not a license for chaos.
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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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If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.
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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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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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What you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.
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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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You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.
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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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