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Norton Juster

"No one paid any attention to how things looked, and as they moved faster and faster everything grew uglier and dirtier, and as everything grew uglier and dirtier they moved faster and faster, and at last a very strange thing began to happen. Because nobody cared, the city slowly began to disappear. Day by day the buildings grew fainter and fainter, and the streets faded away, until at last it was entirely invisible. There was nothing to see at all."

Source : Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.103, Knopf Books for Young Readers

Norton Juster

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“He [Kenneth Branagh] is the nicest guy. He is absolutely fantastic. Hes really down to earth, really friendly, and he has a great sense of humor. I really liked working with him. Hes a fantastic actor as well. Theres such a presence about him.”
“And as I stood there in the hallwayâ€•aloneâ€•trying to understand what had just happened and why, I realized the truth: I wasn't worth an explanationâ€•not even a reaction. Not in your eyes.”

Source : Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.168, Penguin
“Timing really is nearly everything. And what it isn't, circumstance makes up for.”
“No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.”

Source : Harry Emerson Fosdick (2007). “The Meaning of Prayer”, p.174, Cosimo, Inc.
“It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.”
“In all technai or arts (medicine perhaps most of all), there is a self-exhilaration on the part of the practitioner (the intoxication of the ego with its own potency) which is infectious: the patient enjoys a placebo-effect which redounds to the ego of the "artist."”
“It's difficult for people sometimes to recognise when they're happy. People sometimes seem to me to be afraid to be happy.”
“Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.”

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