"I used to distinguish between my fiction and……" — Peter Matthiessen
"I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority."
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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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We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are…
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In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
— Mortimer Adler
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My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex…
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Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on…
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A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion.
— Carl Sagan
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By deciding to succeed and actually trying to make your dreams come true, you are already successful. Your effort and…
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We must not think that [God] takes no notice of us, when He does not answer our wishes: for He…
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We must distinguish between those who depend on others, that is between those who to achieve their purposes can force…
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We may distinguish six kinds of terrain, to wit: (1) Accessible ground; (2) entangling ground; (3) temporising ground; (4) narrow…
— Sun Tzu
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I wonder whether those of our political masters who have been put in charge of the defence of the country…
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What is Moral Courage? It is the ability to distinguish right from wrong and having so distinguished it, be prepared…
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