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Norton Juster Quotes

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“When he was in school he longed to be out, and when he was out he longed to be in. On the way he thought about coming home, and coming home he thought about going. Wherever he was he wished he were somewhere else, and when he got there he wondered why he’d even bothered.”
— Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
Tagged: lost soul, Belonging, finding a place, searching for a place, Finding Purpose, Loneliness, Solitude, Life, Life's Purpose
“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.”
— Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
Tagged: Mistakes, Learning, Success, Failure
“Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.”
— Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
Tagged: Expect, expect everything, unexpected never happens, unexpected, Philosophy, Life, occurrences
“Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause of a room full of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're alone in the whole house? Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful if you listen carefully.”
— Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
Tagged: An Introverted Mind
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