Quotes by Matthew Tobin Anderson

Matthew Tobin Anderson

…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.

Book

Country

Reading

…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.

Goes On

People

Simple

…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.

Eye

Pain

Reality

A library is an adjustable wrench for opening the head.

Library

Opening

Wrenches

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.

Narrative

Play

Years

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.

Choices Made

Decision

Fighting

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

Lasts

Long

May

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.

Important

Mean

Years

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

Children

Long

Punishment

I am messaging you to say that I love you, and that you’re completely wrong about me thinking you’re stupid. I always thought you could teach me things. I was always waiting. You’re not like the others. You say things that no one expects you to. You think you’re stupid. You want to be stupid. But you’re someone people could learn from.

Love You

Stupid

Thinking

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Activism

Air

Apologizing

Atheist

Believe

Blue

Book

Bored

Bostonians

Brain

Bridges

Broken

Century

Cheer

Children

Choices Made

Circles

Cities

Civilization

Consumption

Country

Credit

Cry

Decision

Different

Dna

Dolls

Dream

Dumb

Dwarves

Dying

Ends

Expression

Eye

Faces

Fantasy Novels

Fiction Novels

Fighting

Findings

Fun

Girl

Goes On

Goggles

Hair

Hands

Having Fun

Heart

Historical Novels

House

Ideas

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Quotes by Matthew Tobin Anderson

Matthew Tobin Anderson

…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.

A library is an adjustable wrench for opening the head.

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.

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.

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

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.

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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