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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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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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Many of the things which can never be, often are.
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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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There are no wrong roads to anywhere.
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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 as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.
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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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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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There is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye.
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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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You see, years ago I was just an ordinary bee minding my own business, smelling flowers all day, and occasionally picking up part-time work in people's bonnets. Then one day I realized that I'd never amount to anything without an education and, being naturally adept at spelling, I decided that—
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if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.
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AHA! interrupted Officer Shrift, making another note in his little book. Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.
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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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Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.
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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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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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The way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from.
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