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There are no wrong roads to anywhere.
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I think really good books can be read by anybody.
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But I could never have done it," he objected, "without everyone else's help." "That may be true," said Reason gravely,"but you had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.
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You see. . . it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go nowhere, which was just where we were going when you came along. Would you care to join us?
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A good book written for children can be read by adults
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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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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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Sometimes I find the best way of getting from one place to another is simply to erase everything and begin again.
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Many of the things which can never be, often are.
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That's the way most everyone gets here. It's really quite simple: every time you decide something without having a good reason, you jump to Conclusions whether you like it or not. It's such an easy trip to make that I've been here hundreds of times.
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There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.
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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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...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 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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Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things? You'd have to say Robert plus John equals four, and if the four's name were Albert, things would be hopeless.
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But just because you can never reach it, doesn’t mean that it’s not worth looking for.
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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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Freedom is not a license for chaos.
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Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.
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It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.
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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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Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.
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...I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.
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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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