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Freedom is not a license for chaos.
There are no wrong roads to anywhere.
It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.
You must never feel badly about making mistakes.
I think really good books can be read by anybody.
Many of the things which can never be, often are.
Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.
If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.
Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.
A good book written for children can be read by adults
A good book written for children can be read by adults.
There is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye.
Perhaps you'd care for a synonym bun," suggested the duke.
You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.
What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.
Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.
...I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.
Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.
And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.
The way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from.
There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.
Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.
Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?
So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.
But I suppose there's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open.
The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.
Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.
Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.
But just because you can never reach it, doesn’t mean that it’s not worth looking for.
I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.
People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of
And that's why people no longer care which words they use as long as they use lots of them.
People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of.
They all looked very much like the residents of any small valley to which you've never been.
You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.
Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality.
Why not? That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.
Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things. - Humbug
What you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.
He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory.
I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit.
Sometimes I find the best way of getting from one place to another is simply to erase everything and begin again.
Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.
Since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking.
When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.
To a child, and to an adult, too, what you discover by yourself, or what you think you discover by yourself, is what stays.
And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.
...it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is.
AHA!" interrupted Officer Shrift, making another note in his little book. "Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.
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.