You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.
("The Phantom Tollbooth")
More Quotes from Norton Juster:
In this box are all the words I know…Most of them you will never need, some you will use constantly, but with them you may ask all the questions which have never been answered and answer all the questions which have never been asked. All the great books of the past and all the ones yet to come are made with these words. With them there is no obstacle you cannot overcome. All you must learn to do is to use them well and in the right places.Norton Juster
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
Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.
Norton Juster
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
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
Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.
Norton Juster
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