Tako kad nema baš ništa, uvijek imaš i više nego dovoljno. To je vrlo ekonomičan sistem.
Norton JusterBolje upasti u riječ nego u bunar.
Norton JusterSo each one of you agrees to disagree with whatever the other one agrees with, but if you both disagree with the same thing, aren't you really in agreement?
Norton JusterTag: logic agreement disagreement agree epic milo disagree the-phantom-tollbooth agree-to-disagree the-mathematician
Yes, indeed," they repeated together; "but if we'd told you then, you might not have gone--and as you've discovered, so many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.
Norton JusterDoes everyone here grow the way you do?" puffed
Milo when he had caught up.
"Almost everyone," replied Alec, and then he stopped
a moment and thought. "Now and then, though, some-
one does begin to grow differently. Instead of down, his
feet grow up toward the sky. But we do our best to dis-
courage awkward things like that."
"What happens to them?" insisted Milo.
"Oddly enough, they often grow ten times the size
of everyone else," said Alec thoughtfully, "and I've
heard that they walk among the stars.
Why don't they live in Illusions?' suggested the Humbug. 'It's much prettier.'
'Many of them do,' he answered, walking in the direction of the forest once again, 'but 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.
A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.
Norton JusterTag: on-writing storytelling
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My goodness', thought Milo. 'Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.
Norton JusterYou often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than right for the wrong reasons.
Norton Juster...today people use as many words as they can and think themselves very wise for doing so. For always remember that while it is wrong to use too few, it is often far worse to use too many.
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