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We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don't care if they make sense or nonsense.

We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if they make sense or nonsense.
– Norton Juster

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  3. 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 Juster
  4. It’s all nonsense. It’s only nonsense. I’m not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn’t. – Ernest Hemingway
  5. Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected. – Charles Lamb
  6. Even if it is nonsense, it is often useful to know what kind of nonsense men believe. – John Christopher
  7. It seems that nonsense is the only sensible recourse to remedy the nonsense of society’s accepted normalcy – Natasha Tsakos
  8. You are hurrying to the sweet place, To the nonsense chasing your spirit And in the nonsense you look for answers. – Dejan Stojanovic
  9. Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God. – CS Lewis
  10. 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. – Norton Juster
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  12. Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub? – Norton Juster
  13. …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. – Norton Juster
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  15. He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory. – Norton Juster
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  22. Words can create, words give life, words can build, words can destroy. Words can bring something out of nothing. What are you saying? – Mopelola Adeniyi
  23. The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. – CG Jung
  24. In a world of common nonsense, our best defence is common sense. – Juliet Castle
  25. A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself. – Tom Stoppard
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  27. Showing STRENGTH doesn’t mean we have to fight a battle…Sometimes it’s far better to WALK AWAY from all the nonsense and those who indulge in it – Karen Gibbs
  28. Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. – Yann Martel
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  37. So if I was to choose? Then I choose complicated,- I said, with a nod of finality. I met his eyes again in a silent challenge.-œI choose you. – CJ Duggan
  38. Choose to live life.Choose your own career paths.Choose your own destiny. – Lailah Gifty Akita
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