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Peter Matthiessen has 35 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present,…
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Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for…
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Simplicity is the whole secret of well-being.
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I meditate for the last time on this mountain that is bare, though others all around are white with snow. Like the…
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This world is painted on a wild dark metal
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There's an elegiac quality in watching [American wilderness] go, because it's our own myth, the American frontier, that's deteriorating before our eyes.…
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My eye is fixed not on the ending of the book but on the feeling of that ending.
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Where to begin? Do we measure the relaxing of the feet? The moment when the eye glimpses the hawk, when instinct functions?…
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The sun is roaring, it fills to bursting each crystal of snow. I flush with feeling, moved beyond my comprehension, and once…
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I have never figured out how women work but I do know that their skin color has no significance. Black or white,…
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Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure and uninterpreted…
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Zen is really just a reminder to stay alive and to be awake. We tend to daydream all the time, speculating about…
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded…
— Hannah Arendt
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All the scientist creates in a fact is the language in which he enunciates it. If he predicts a fact, he will…
— Henri Poincare
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It is in the nature of democracies, perhaps, that while visionaries are sometimes necessary to make them, once made they can be…
— Ramachandra Guha
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
— Socrates
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I once made the mistake of writing a story with David Corbett. The man smoked me. He can delineate the character and…
— Luis Alberto Urrea
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When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in…
— Graham Swift
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What once made you safe now drives you insane.
— Ruby Wax
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The Bible shows the clear statement of God's purposes concerning the earth, and man once made its prince. Its opening chapters show…
— Joseph Franklin Rutherford
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The great stillness in these landscapes that once made me restless seeps into me day by day, and with it the unreasonable…
— Peter Matthiessen
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Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off.…
— Thomas A. Edison
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I don't know what takes more courage: surviving a lifelong endurance test because you once made a promise or breaking free, disrupting…
— Anne Tyler
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I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.
— Garry Shandling
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