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Mal Peet Biography

Malcolm Charles Peet (5 October 1947 – 2 March 2015) was an English author and illustrator best known for young adult fiction. He has won several honours including the Brandford Boase, the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Prize, British children's literature awards that recognise "year's best" books. Three of his novels feature football and the fictional South American sports journalist Paul Faustino. The Murdstone Trilogy (2014) is his first work aimed at adult readers.

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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.

Believe, Cousin, Kissing, Nostalgia, Sentimentality, Though

The three things that kept me sane as a child were bikes, books, and soccer

Soccer, Children, Book, Kept, Bikes

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

Book, Form, Illiteracy, Variety

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.

Like, Paper, Taught, Together, Variety, Way

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.

Divisions, Messed, Numbers, Tangled, Together

So? You think people stop talking to you when they are dead?

Dead, People, Talking, Think, Thinking

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.

Bars, Laundromat, Liquor Stores, Prevents, Store, Waiting

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