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• 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 use them well and in the right places.

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  Book, Past, May

  "The Phantom Tollbooth". Book by Norton Juster, 1961.

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• We're right here on this very spot. Besides, being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't - and I don't care at all about where I'm not.

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  Knowing, Care, Matter

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.98, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting

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  Kids, Thinking, Realizing

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• People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of

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  People, Citing, Influence

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• Perhaps you'd care for a synonym bun," suggested the duke.

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  Buns, Care, Dukes

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.82, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. I imagine by now it's quite rusty.

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  Years, Way, Return

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.25, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I don't know of any wrong road to Dictionopolis, so if this road goes to Dictionopolis at all it must be the right road, and if it doesn't it must be the right road to somewhere else, because there are no wrong roads to anywhere. Do you think it will rain?

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  Rain, Thinking, Somewhere Else

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.25, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.

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  Silence, Sound, Use

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.163, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• They walked for a while, all silent in their thoughts, until they reached the car and Alec drew a fine telescope from his shirt and handed it to Milo. "Carry this with you on your journey," he said softly, "for there is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye. Through it you can see everything from the tender moss in a sidewalk crack to the glow of the farthest star — and, most important of all, you can see things as they really are, not just as they seem to be. It's my gift to you.

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  Stars, Eye, Journey

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.112, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• And that's why people no longer care which words they use as long as they use lots of them.

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  Long, People, Use

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• Many of the things which can never be, often are.

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  Phantom Tollbooth

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.163, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I never knew words could be so confusing," Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog's ear. "Only when you use a lot to say a little," answered Tock. Milo thought this was quite the wisest thing he'd heard all day.

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  Dog, Confusing, Scratches

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.47, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• ...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.

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  Mean, Trying, Infinity

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.163, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• You must never feel badly about making mistakes.

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  Mistake, Phantom Tollbooth, Children Book

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.189, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• 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 I hadn't made so many mistakes. I'm afraid it's all my fault.

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  Inspirational, Mistake, Princess

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.189, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.

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  Pieces, Information, Facts

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• Where is the sound?" someone hastily scribbled on the blackboard, and they all waited anxiously for the reply. Milo caught his breath, picked up the chalk, and explained simply, "It's on the tip of my tongue.

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  Sound, Tongue, Caught

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.134, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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.

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  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "An Interview with Norton Juster, Author of The Phantom Tollbooth". Interview with RoseEtta Stone, www.underdown.org.

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• The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. “You’ll find,” he remarked gently, “that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that’s hardly worth the effort.

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  Effort, Chins, Can Do

  "The Phantom Tollbooth". Book by Norton Juster, books.google.ru. January 26, 2011.

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• Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.

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  Mean, Choices

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• Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.

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  Infinity, Phantom Tollbooth, Poor

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.160, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• 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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  Mean, Long, Use

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.46, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• To a child, and to an adult, too, what you discover by yourself, or what you think you discover by yourself, is what stays.

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  Nature, Children, Thinking

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