Sam Anderson

@shamblanderson

New York Times Magazine staff writer, tweeting the best sentence I read (more or less) every day

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    Mar 9

    I got carried away and spent 5 years writing a book about Oklahoma City, the most secretly interesting place in America. I've waited my whole mag career for a subject to grab me like this. Outlaws, sit-ins, tornadoes, Durant & Westbrook. Coming August 21.

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  2. Mar 29

    The epic of disbelief Blares oftener and soon, will soon be constant. (Wallace stevens, "Sad Strains of a Gay Waltz"

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  3. Mar 23

    Release the gas and the container is contained. —Bruce Nauman, "Cones Cojones," 1974

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  4. Mar 20

    Peter Carey has one key piece of advice for white novelists attempting to write about Indigenous Australia: “Do not make a dick of yourself.”

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  5. Mar 19

    sex in the garden was entirely voluntary and Adam’s erection was an action deliberate as lifting a hand. — St Augustine’s vision of life in Eden, via Anne Enright

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  6. Mar 17

    Letters to the are the best letters.

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  7. Mar 14

    Even though he was a physicist, he knew that important biological objects come in pairs. — Watson, The Double Helix

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  8. Mar 13

    I jetpack into the heaviness alone. — Morgan Parker, "My Vinyl Weighs a Ton"

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  9. Mar 12

    One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers & mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded & dull, but also just stupid. — Watson, The Double Helix

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  10. Mar 8

    The phone is the nation that loves the phone. — "These Are Dangerous Times, Man"

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  11. Mar 7

    Soon Dawn appeared and touched the sky with roses. —The Odyssey, translated by

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  12. Mar 6

    Even the deathless gods respect a man who is as lost as I am now. —The Odyssey, translated by

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  13. Mar 5

    Mrs Wormwood's hair was dyed a brilliant platinum blonde, very much the same glistening silvery colour as a female tightrope-walker's tights in a circus. —Roald Dahl, Matilda

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  14. Mar 3

    The wall of a can is 0.097 millimeters thick — about as thick as a human hair.

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  15. Feb 12

    I guess that’s what defines a friend to me: someone who can still be a friend while I go manically through romantic visions. — Kathy Acker (quoted in Chris Kraus’s *After Kathy Acker*)

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  16. Feb 11

    Some god poured down deep sleep. — The Odyssey, Book 7, transl

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  17. Feb 9

    It so happens I am sick of being a man. — Pablo Neruda, "Walking Around" (transl Robert Bly)

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  18. Jan 30

    (If you are reading this story out loud, force a listener to reveal a devastating secret, then open the nearest window to the street and scream it as loudly as you are able.) — , Her Body and Other Parties

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  19. Jan 30

    *It is girls from which stories begin*, she wrote in her last notebook. Chris Kraus, *After Kathy Acker*

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  20. Retweeted
    Jan 28

    Christ can you imagine what we could collectively do if we just accepted we weren't perfect and put all the energy we use now to defend the idea that we are, personally, into actually being more perfect like as a union my god what a nation we could build

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