Matthew Tobin Anderson Quotes

• It’s the end. It’s the end of the civilization. We’re going down. No, it’s sure not too attractive. Lenticels. I just hope my kids don’t live to see the last days. The things burning and people living in cellars. Violet. The only thing worse than the thought it may all come tumbling down is the thought that we may go on like this forever.

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  Kids, Tumbling Down, Civilization

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• Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?

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  Teenager, Book, Writing

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• I wanted to say something to cheer her up. I had a feeling that cheering her up might be a lot of work. I was thinking of how sometimes, trying to say the right thing to people, it’s like some kind of brain surgery, and you have to tweak exactly the right part of the lobe. Except with talking, it’s more like brain surgery with old, rusted skewers and things, maybe like those things you use to eat lobster, but brown. And you have to get exactly the right place, and you’re touching around in the brain but the patient, she keeps jumping and saying, “Ow.

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  Cheer, Thinking, Jumping

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• Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.'

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  Teenager, Writing, Teens

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• Empedolces claims that in utero, our backbone is one long solid; and that through the constriction of the womb and the punishments of birth it must be snapped again and again to form our vertebrae; that for the child to have a spine, his back must first be broken

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  Children, Punishment, Long

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• There are times when friendship feels like running down a hill together as fast as you can, jumping over things, spinning around, and you don't care where you're going, and you don't care where you've come from, because all that matters is speed, and the hands holding your hands.

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  Running, Jumping, Spinning Around

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• And I realize that the decision to be human is not one single instant, but is a thousand choices made very day. It is choices we make every second and requires constant vigilance. We have to fight to remain human.

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  Fighting, Choices Made, Decision

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• It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should.

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  Book, Believe, Should Have

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• Los adolescentes no son como los enanos raros y tontos que tienes por casa. En realidad son tú cuando eras más joven.

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  Dwarves, House, Dumb

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• A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.

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  Years, Play, Narrative

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• Siento que es difícil entrar en novelas históricas en las que conoces demasiado bien la historia.

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  Historical Novels, Stories, Wells

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• I completely love music. I used to be the music critic at 'The Improper Bostonian.' It's just something I've always loved very deeply.

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  Music Love, Used, Bostonians

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• No sabes lo irritante que es ser ateo en una casa encantada.

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  Atheist, House, Irritating

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• …It’s like a spiral: They keep making everything more basic so it will appeal to everyone. And gradually, everyone gets used to everything being basic, so we get less and less varied as people, more simple. So the corps make everything even simpler. And it goes on and on.

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  Simple, People, Goes On

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• At long last, you may no longer distinguish what binds you from what is you.

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  Largo, Mayo, Dura

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• I do not know what I regret. I sit with my pen, and cannot find an end to that sentence.

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  Regret, Ends, Sentences

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• I feel like it's important every once in a while to estrange ourselves from the familiar to remind ourselves of the potentialities of people, how many different ways there are of being.

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  Gente, Importante, Diferente

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• We Americans are interested only in the consumption of our products. We have no interest in how they are produced, or what happens to them once we discard them, once we throw them away.

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  Activism, Interest, Consumption

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• I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.

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  Teenage, Writing, Years

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• You made her apologize for sickness. For her courage. You made her feel sorry for dying.

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  Sorry, Dying, Apologizing

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• I eat broccoli. I think about the plot. I pace in circles for hours, counter-clockwise, listening to music. I try to think of one detail in the scene I'm about to write that I'm really excited about writing. Until I can come up with that one detail, I pace.

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  Writing, Thinking, Circles

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• The natural world is so adaptable...So adaptable you wonder what's natural.

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  World, Wonder, Natural

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• There is a power in names. Olakunde told us of ashe-the power which runs through all things, subtle and flexible, which find its most potent expression in human utterance; so that it is a terrible thing to call down imprecations on an enemy, or to wish for anything but good, for what is said out loud is forged into truth.

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  Running, Expression, Names

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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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• Certain elements of teen life that, 10 years ago, were very important to me still, are becoming less so as I get older. I mean, Ive kinda gotten over, I guess Im saying, the fact that I had trouble getting a date for the prom.

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  Mean, Years, Important

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