Mal Peet quotes

“Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.”
-- Mal Peet

#Book Quotes #Form Quotes #Illiteracy Quotes

“Sentimentality and nostalgia are closely related. Kissing cousins. I have no time for nostalgia, though. Nostalgics believe the past is nicer than the present. It isn't. Or wasn't. Nostalgics want to cuddle the past like a puppy. But the past has bloody teeth and bad breath. I look into its mouth like a sorrowing dentist.”
-- Mal Peet

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“History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We're not especially interested in what it consists of. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar.”
-- Mal Peet

#Waiting Quotes #Bars Quotes #Burgers Quotes

“Algebra messed up one of those divisions between things that help you make sense of the world and keep it tidy. Letters make words; figures make numbers. They had no business getting tangled up together.”
-- Mal Peet

Source : Mal Peet (2006). “Tamar”, Walker Books Limited

#Numbers Quotes #Tangled Quotes #Together Quotes

“Grandad taught me that the alien signs and symbols of algebraic equations were not just marks on paper. They were not flat. They were three-dimensional, and you could approach them from different directions, look at them from different ways, stand them on their heads. You could take them apart and put them back together in a variety of shapes, like Legos. I stopped being scared of them.”
-- Mal Peet

Source : Mal Peet (2006). “Tamar”, Walker Books Limited

#Together Quotes #Different Quotes #Three Quotes

“The three things that kept me sane as a child were bikes, books, and soccer”
-- Mal Peet

#Soccer Quotes #Children Quotes #Book Quotes

“So? You think people stop talking to you when they are dead?”
-- Mal Peet

Source : Mal Peet (2006). “Tamar”, Walker Books Limited

#Thinking Quotes #Talking Quotes #People Quotes

“And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.”

“Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.”

“In the actual state of social relationships, the forms ("formes", Fr.) of politeness are necessary as a subsitute to benevolence.”

Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 50), 1937.

“You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.”

Source : "Shock tactics" by Alison Brace, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2000.

“There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form.”

“In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.”

“We must reject dictatorship in whatever form it takes--and especially when it rears its head in our own midst on the bench.”

“Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.”

“I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy.”

“Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.”