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✵ 2. juin 1929  •  Autres noms נורטון ג'סטר

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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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Norton Juster livre The Phantom Tollbooth

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“But I suppose there's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open.”

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Norton Juster livre The Phantom Tollbooth

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“For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.”

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Norton Juster livre The Phantom Tollbooth

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

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Norton Juster livre The Phantom Tollbooth

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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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Norton Juster livre The Phantom Tollbooth

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“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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Norton Juster livre The Phantom Tollbooth

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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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Norton Juster livre The Phantom Tollbooth

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“Is everyone who lives in Ignorance like you?" asked Milo.
"Much worse," he said longingly. "But I don't live here. I'm from a place very far away called Context.”

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Norton Juster livre The Phantom Tollbooth

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“You see… it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go nowhere, which was just where we were going when you came along. Would you care to join us?”

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Norton Juster livre The Phantom Tollbooth

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“Oh dear, all those words again," thought Milo as he climbed into the wagon with Tock and the cabinet members. "How are you going to make it move? It doesn't have a--" "Be very quiet," advised the duke, "for it goes without saying.”

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