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One Quotes by Norton Juster
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- You see, years ago I was just an ordinary bee minding my own business, smelling flowers all day, and occasionally picking up part-time work in…
- 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…
- Ah, this is fine," he cried triumphantly, holding up a small medallion on a chain. He dusted it off, and engraved on one side were…
- Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know…
- I know one thing for certain; it is much harder to tell whether you are lost than whether you were lost, for, on many occasions,…
- Why, did you know that if a beaver two feet long with a tail a foot and a half long can build a dam twelve…
- Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality.
- 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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