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Norton Juster is an American author renowned for his children's literature. His most famous work, 'Charlotte's Web,' has been a beloved classic since its publication in 1952. Beyond children's literature, Juster has also ventured into adult fiction and poetry.

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

People Long Use Care

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“So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”

Knows Long Impossible Possibility Optimistic Phantom Tollbooth

Author: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.”

Ifs Mean Long Use Care Don't Care Make Sense Nonsense

Book:The phantom tollbooth

Source: The phantom tollbooth

“You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. 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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Author:Norton Juster

“Why, did you know that if a beaver two feet long with a tail a foot and a half long can build a dam twelve feet high and six feet wide in two days, all you would need to build Boulder Dam is a beaver sixty-eight feet long with a fifty-one-foot tail?" "Where would you find a beaver that big?" grumbled the Humbug as his pencil point snapped. "I'm sure I don't know," he replied, "but if you did, you'd certainly know what to do with him.”

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Book:The Phantom Tollbooth 50th Anniversary Edition

Source: The Phantom Tollbooth 50th Anniversary Edition

“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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Book:The phantom tollbooth

Source: The phantom tollbooth

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Born: June 2, 1929
Known for: Author
Quotes: 117

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