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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 am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit.
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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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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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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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A good book written for children can be read by adults
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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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You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.
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There are no wrong roads to anywhere.
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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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I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.
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Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.
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And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.
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You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.
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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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Many of the things which can never be, often are.
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Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.
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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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Freedom is not a license for chaos.
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I never knew words could be so confusing, Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog's ear. Only when you use a lot to say a little, answered Tock. Milo thought this was quite the wisest thing he'd heard all day.
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