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“Its funny how certain objects convey a message -- my washer and dryer, for example. They can't speak, of course, but whenever I pass them they remind me that I'm doing fairly well. "No more laundromat for you," they hum. My stove, a downer, tells me every day that I can't cook, and before I can defend myself my scale jumps in, shouting from the bathroom, "Well, he must be doing something. My numbers are off the charts." The skeleton has a much more limited vocabulary and says only one thing: "You are going to die.”
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“You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.”
― The Phantom Tollbooth
― The Phantom Tollbooth
“Body cells replace themselves every month. Even at this very moment. Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.”
― A Wild Sheep Chase
― A Wild Sheep Chase
“And, as you've discovered, so many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
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“I don't know of any wrong road to Dictionopolis, so if this road goes to Dictionopolis at all it must be the right road, and if it doesn't it must be the right road to somewhere else, because there are no wrong roads to anywhere. Do you think it will rain?”
― The Phantom Tollbooth
― The Phantom Tollbooth
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