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You may not see it now," said the Princess of Pure Reason, looking knowingly at Milo's puzzled face, "but whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way.

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Princess, Purpose, May

Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.190, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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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Moving, Cabinets, Dukes

Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.75, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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For instance," said the boy again, "if Christmas trees were people and people were Christmas trees, we'd all be chopped down, put up in the living room, and covered in tinsel, while the trees opened our presents." "What does that have to do with it?" asked Milo. "Nothing at all," he answered, "but it's an interesting possibility, don't you think?

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Thinking, Boys, People

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But I could never have done it," he objected, "without everyone else's help." "That may be true," said Reason gravely,"but you had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.

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Trying, Done, May

Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.200, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations, but my job is to hurry them along whether they like it or not.

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Jobs, People, Expectations

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

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I think really good books can be read by anybody.

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Book, Thinking, Good Book

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AHA!" interrupted Officer Shrift, making another note in his little book. "Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.

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Book, Boys, Littles

Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.61, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.

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Wasting Time, Phantom Tollbooth, Killing

Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.34, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times.

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Kids, Want, Problem

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...I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.

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Children, Fall, Phantom Tollbooth

Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.95, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things. - Humbug

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Trying, Looks, Sides

Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.86, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea

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Teacher, School, Kids

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I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.

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Morning, Writing, Half

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You see, it's really quite simple. A simile is just a mode of comparison employing 'as' and 'like' to reveal the hidden character or essence of whatever we want to describe, and through the use of fancy, association, contrast, extension, or imagination, to enlarge our understanding or perception of human experience and observation.

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Character, Simple, Essence

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He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory.

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Sweet, Memories, Tears

Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.124, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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Do you think it will rain? Milo: But I thought you were the Weather Man? No, I'm the Whether man, for it is more important to know whether there will be weather, whether than what the weather will be.

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Rain, Men, Thinking

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You see, to tall men I'm a midget, and to short men I'm a giant; to the skinny ones I'm a fat man, and to the fat ones I'm a thin man.

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Men, Skinny, Giants

Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.100, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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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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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Holiday, Care, Doing Nothing

Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.27, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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They all looked very much like the residents of any small valley to which you've never been.

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Valleys, Residents

Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.123, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.

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Life, Real, Eye

Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.101, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.

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Expectations, Phantom Tollbooth

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

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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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Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.

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Boys, Causes

Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.61, 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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