Norton Juster Quotes
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You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.
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Is everyone who lives in Ignorance like you?" asked Milo. "Much worse," he said longingly. "But I don't live here. I'm from a place very far away called Context.
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Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.
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Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.
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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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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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A good book written for children can be read by adults
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It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.
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...it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is.
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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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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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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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If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.
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Many of the things which can never be, often are.
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And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.
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And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.
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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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Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.
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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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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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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 are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.
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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.