Norton Juster Quotes

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• Every sunrise gives you a new beginning and a new ending. Let this morning be a new beginning to a better relationship and a new…
• 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…
• It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would have been here much sooner if…
• You must never feel badly about making mistakes,
• Why not? That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.
• Many of the things which can never be, often are.
• The way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from.
• There is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye.
• 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…
• Whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. Why, when a housefly…
• When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.
• There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.
• 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?…
• 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…
• I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit.
• No one paid any attention to how things looked, and as they moved faster and faster everything grew uglier and dirtier, and as everything grew…
• Freedom is not a license for chaos,
• People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of
• A good book written for children can be read by adults
• And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in…

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