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title: "1 Seventeen Year Quotes By Peter Heller"
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> [“Nobody on earth is more righteous than a seventeen year old. (244)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-heller/nobody-on-earth-is-more-righteous-than-a-seventeen-year-old-244/)

[Peter Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-heller/)

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## More by Peter Heller

> [“It occurred to me that the death of his grazing land hurt him more, incomparably more than the death of the human race. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-heller/it-occurred-to-me-that-the-death-of-his-grazing-land-hurt-him-more/)

[Peter Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-heller/)

> [Kook means the clueless beginner who paddles his surf board out to the other surfers in the lineup and starts chattering away like it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-heller/kook-means-the-clueless-beginner-who-paddles-his-surf-board-out-to/)

[Peter Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-heller/)

> [“We have traveled. Now you will be the path I will walk I will walk Over you.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-heller/we-have-traveled-now-you-will-be-the-path-i-will-walk-i-will-walk/)

[Peter Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-heller/)

> [“Well, I think that’s sort of like Eve biting the apple. You were talking about Genesis. I think it’s like that, the crow is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-heller/well-i-think-that-s-sort-of-like-eve-biting-the-apple-you-were/)

[Peter Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-heller/)

> [I like the drinking-out-of-the-fire-hose approach - you're getting way more than you can handle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-heller/i-like-the-drinking-out-of-the-fire-hose-approach-you-re-getting-way/)

[Peter Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-heller/)

> [“Because that's what it turned into: in front of a fine painting a viewer stopped looking and started watching, watching is more specific, watching…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-heller/because-that-s-what-it-turned-into-in-front-of-a-fine-painting-a/)

[Peter Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-heller/)

> [“The pleasure almost split me like a baking stuffed tomato. Like my heart swelled and my skin got thinner and thinner in the heat…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-heller/the-pleasure-almost-split-me-like-a-baking-stuffed-tomato-like-my/)

[Peter Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-heller/)

> [Wanted to write fiction since I was 11, since I first read 'In Our Time' by Hemingway.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-heller/wanted-to-write-fiction-since-i-was-11-since-i-first-read-in-our-time/)

[Peter Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-heller/)

> [“She collapsed. I stepped forward and caught her. I thought of two trees nearly unrooted and leaning against each other.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-heller/she-collapsed-i-stepped-forward-and-caught-her-i-thought-of-two-trees/)

[Peter Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-heller/)

> [All my journalism, all my books are first person, and it's all memoir. Even when I'm writing about the oil spill in the Gulf,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-heller/all-my-journalism-all-my-books-are-first-person-and-it-s-all-memoir/)

[Peter Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-heller/)

> [“we can proceed in our lives just as easily from love to love as from loss to loss. A good thing to remember in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-heller/we-can-proceed-in-our-lives-just-as-easily-from-love-to-love-as-from/)

[Peter Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-heller/)

> [“It's early spring, some late or early hour with Orion toppling backward onto the serrated edge of the mountains and not crying out but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-heller/it-s-early-spring-some-late-or-early-hour-with-orion-toppling/)

[Peter Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-heller/)

> [“I once had a book on the stars but now I don't. My memory serves but not stellar, ha. So I made up constellations.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-heller/i-once-had-a-book-on-the-stars-but-now-i-don-t-my-memory-serves-but/)

[Peter Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-heller/)

> [Species are going extinct because of habitat loss and warming. I feel deeply responsible and think about it every day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-heller/species-are-going-extinct-because-of-habitat-loss-and-warming-i-feel/)

[Peter Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-heller/)

> [“I think there should be tribunals for social cruelty as there are for physical assault. Calculated cuts in the first degree. Snobicide or its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-heller/i-think-there-should-be-tribunals-for-social-cruelty-as-there-are-for/)

[Peter Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-heller/)

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