Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?
("The Phantom Tollbooth")
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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.Norton Juster
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.
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It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean.
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Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.
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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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Since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must thinking.
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