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You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.
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I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.
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Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.
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Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.
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And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.
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The way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from.
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Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.
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So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.
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Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?
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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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The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.
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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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Once upon a time, there was a sensible straight line who was hopelessly in love with a dot.
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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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You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.
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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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Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things. - Humbug
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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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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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Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.
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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 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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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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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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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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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Norton Juster
Born:
June 2, 1929
Died:
March 8, 2021
(aged 91)
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