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And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.
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Norton Juster
Age: 91 †
Born: 1929
Born: June 2
Died: 2021
Died: March 8
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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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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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Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?
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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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I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.
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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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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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I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting
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Since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.
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A good book written for children can be read by adults
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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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The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.
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You must never feel badly about making mistakes.
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