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Norton Juster

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Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.


— Norton Juster


#unexpected

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 that.


— Norton Juster


#philosophy #quest #reason

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.


— Norton Juster


#life

A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.


— Norton Juster


#storytelling #intellect

...it's very much like your trying to reach infinity. You know that it's there, you just don't know where-but just because you can never reach it doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for.


— Norton Juster


#infinity #goals

Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?


— Norton Juster


#bathtub #fantasy #fiction #hearing #kids

But just because you can never reach it, doesn’t mean that it’s not worth looking for.


— Norton Juster


#life

... what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.


— Norton Juster


#inspirational #education

Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.


— Norton Juster


#unexpected

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.


— Norton Juster


#nonsense






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The latter film received the 1965 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. Although he has retired from architecture he still writes. 71-85568)— illustrated by Arnold Roth
So Sweet to Labor: Rural Women in America 1865-1895 (editor) (1979) (ISBN 0-670-65483-3) — non-fiction
Otter Nonsense (1982) (ISBN 0-399-20932-8) — illustrated by Eric Carle
As: A Surfeit of Similes (1989) (ISBN 0-688-08139-8)
A Woman's Place: Yesterday's Women in Rural America (1996) (ISBN 1-55591-250-8) — non-fiction
The Hello Goodbye Window (2005) (ISBN 0-7868-0914-0) — illustrated by Chris Raschka
Sourpuss and Sweetie Pie (2008) (ISBN 9780439929431) - illustrated by Chris Raschka
The Odious Ogre (2010) (ISBN 0-545-16202-5) - Illustrated by Jules Feiffer
Neville (2011) (ISBN 0375867651/ISBN 978-0375867651) - illustrated by G.

Norton Juster (born June 2 1929) is an American architect and author.

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