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“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.”
― The Phantom Tollbooth
― The Phantom Tollbooth
“There are no wrong roads to anywhere.”
― The Phantom Tollbooth
― The Phantom Tollbooth
“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
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“Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?”
― The Phantom Tollbooth
― The Phantom Tollbooth
“But just because you can never reach it, doesn’t mean that it’s not worth looking for.”
― The Phantom Tollbooth
― The Phantom Tollbooth
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