Mal Peet quotes
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“Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.”
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“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.”
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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.”
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“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 PeetSource : Mal Peet (2006). “Tamar”, Walker Books Limited
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“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 PeetSource : Mal Peet (2006). “Tamar”, Walker Books Limited
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“The three things that kept me sane as a child were bikes, books, and soccer”
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“So? You think people stop talking to you when they are dead?”
-- Mal PeetSource : Mal Peet (2006). “Tamar”, Walker Books Limited
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“And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.”
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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.
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Source : "Shock tactics" by Alison Brace, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2000.
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“I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy.”
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