““Didn’t you ever see a cat before?”
“Of course I did,” said the boy. “Hundreds of them. But just because you’ve seen something, it doesn’t mean you stop looking. There’s always something you didn’t see before.””
Source: Time Cat (1963), Chapter 10 “Odranoel” (pp. 100-101)
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“Didn’t you ever see a cat before?”
Lloyd Alexander
(1924–2007) American children's writer
“Of course I did,” said the boy. “Hundreds of them. But just because you’ve seen something, it doesn’t mean you stop looking. There’s always something you didn’t see before.”
Source: Time Cat (1963), Chapter 10 “Odranoel” (pp. 100-101)
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Context: Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn’t mean you’ve reached them. With reading comprehension being what it is in the U. S., you can safely toss that one out the window. If you want to judge by the listening habits of people who buy records, the first thing they do is put it on and talk over it.
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(1924–2007) American children's writer
Source: Time Cat (1963), Chapter 3 “Neter-Khet” (p. 20)
“Just because a poet said something didn’t mean it was true, only that it sounded good.”
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