Matthew Tobin Anderson Quotes - Page 2

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• One of the series I like is D.M. Cornish's 'Monster Blood Tattoo,' in which he creates a whole language. Kids who are reading that are building a language in their heads. There's no real cognitive difference. I think kids are excited by language, and they're not always given credit for that.

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  Tattoo, Real, Reading

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• A library is an adjustable wrench for opening the head.

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  Library, Opening, Wrenches

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• I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.

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  Fantasy Novels, Fiction Novels, Science Fiction

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• Occasionally people ask me how it is I write different types of things, and my answer to that is it's very natural. You get bored writing one kind of thing all the time.

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  Writing, People, Bored

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• I could see my face, crying, in her blank eye.

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  Eye, Faces, Cry

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• We all flee in hope of finding some ground of security

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  Findings, Security

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• Of course, I had my heart broken as a teen. I was desperately in love with myself. Then I found out that I was completely shallow. I haven't spoken to myself since.

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  Heart, Broken, Shallow

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• People talk about the beauty of the spring, but I can't see it. The trees are brown and bare, slimy with rain. Some are crawling with new purple hairs. And the buds are bulging like tumorous acne, and I can tell that something wet, and soft, and cold, and misshapen is about to be born. And I am turning into a vampire.

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  Spring, Rain, Hair

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• Whispering makes a narrow place narrower.

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  Whispering

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• I don’t know. D’you think? He’s pretty wide in the chest.” The girl looked at me, and I was frozen. So I said, “Yeah. I work out.” Violet asked me, “What are you? What’s your cup size?” I shrugged and played along. “Like, nine and a half?” I guessed. “That’s my shoe size.” Violet said, “I think he’d like something slinky, kind of silky.” I said, “As long as you can stop me from rubbing myself up against a wall the whole time.” “Okay,” said Violet, holding her hands up like she was annoyed. “Okay, the chemise last week was a mistake.

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  Girl, Wall, Mistake

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• Image of a girl holding a blaster to a twin’s temple. “Remember, bi***. You can’t spell ‘danger’ without DNA.” Blam.

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  Girl, Dna, Temples

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• Then it was this big thing. She was like, 'I never want to see you again', and I was like, 'Fine. Okay? Fine. Then get some special goggles.

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  Special, Goggles, Want

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• We must curb ourfury, and allow sadness to diminish, and speak our stories with coolness and deliberation.

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  Sadness, Stories, Speak

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• ...for reading, once begun, quickly becomes home and circle and court and family, and indeed, without narrative, I felt exiled from my own country. By the transport of books, that which is most foreign becomes one's familiar walks and avenues; while that which is most familiar is removed to delightful strangeness; and unmoving, one travels infinite causeways, immobile and thus unfettered.

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  Country, Book, Reading

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• I miss that time. The cities back then, just after the forests died, were full of wonders, and you'd stumble on them--these princes of the air on common rooftops--the rivers that burst through the city streets so they ran like canals--the rabbits in parking garages--the deer foaling, nestled in Dumpsters like a Nativity.

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  Air, Cities, Rivers

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• Perhaps his gloom was due to his profession, that he lived among fallen empires, and in reading these languages that had not been spoken by the common man in centuries, he had all about him the ruin of language, evidence of toppled suburbs, grass growing among the mosaics, and voices that had been choked with poison, iron, age, or ash.

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  Reading, Men, Voice

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• You need the noise of your friends in space.

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  Space, Needs, Noise

  "Feed". Book by Matthew Tobin Anderson, www.npr.org. 2002.

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• ...they told me of color, that it was an illusion of the eye, an event in the perceiver's mind, not in the object; they told me that color had no reality; indeed, they told me that color did not inhere in a physical body any more than pain was in a needle. And then they imprisoned me in darkness; and though there was no color there, I still was black, and they still were white; and for that, they bound and gagged me.

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  Pain, Eye, Reality

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• I don't know when they first had feeds. Like maybe, fifty or a hundred years ago. Before that, they had to use their hands and their eyes. Computers were all outside the body. They carried them around outside of them, in their hands, like if you carried your lungs in a briefcase and opened it to breathe.

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  Eye, Hands, Years

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• My idea of life, it's what happens when they're rolling the credits.

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  Ideas, Rolling, Credit

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• Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls.

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  Thinking, Brain, Dolls

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• We are the nation of dreams. We are seers. We are wizards. We speak in visions. Our letters are like flocks of doves, released from under our hats. We have only to stretch out our hand and desire, and what we wish for settles like a kerchief in our palm. We are a race of sorcerers, enchanters. We are Atlantis. We are the wizard-isle of Mu.

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  Dream, Hands, Race

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• it's like a squid in love with the sky.

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  Sky, Squids

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• The sky was as blue as a stupid postcard, and the islands were as green as islands.

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  Stupid, Blue, Sky

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• There's an ancient saying in Japan, that life is like walking from one side of infinite darkness to another, on a bridge of dreams. They say that we're all crossing the bridge of dreams together. That there's nothing more than that. Just us, on the bridge of dreams.

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  Dream, Japan, Bridges

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