"Figures dark beneath their loads pass down the……" — Peter Matthiessen
"Figures dark beneath their loads pass down the far bank of the river, rendered immortal by the streak of sunset upon their shoulders"
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35 Quotes by Peter Matthiessen
Peter Matthiessen has 35 quotes on this site.
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The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of…
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Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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The sun is roaring, it fills to bursting each crystal of snow. I flush with feeling, moved beyond my comprehension,…
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I have never figured out how women work but I do know that their skin color has no significance. Black…
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Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure…
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Zen is really just a reminder to stay alive and to be awake. We tend to daydream all the time,…
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I don't use a debit card. The safest thing is a credit card because you're using the bank's money. If…
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And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.
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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.…
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My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank…
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As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let…
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Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.
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If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal…
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