"In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint,……" — Peter Matthiessen
"In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth."
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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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More Constraint Quotes
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Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the…
— William J. Clinton
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A social fact is every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint;…
— Emile Durkheim
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We must destroy all which in the present school answers to the organization of constraint, the artificial surroundings by which…
— Francesc Ferrer i Guardia
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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to…
— Seneca the Younger
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A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.
— Jean Giraudoux
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An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that…
— Henri Matisse
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Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.
— Michelangelo
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An artist must not feel under any constraint.
— Henri Matisse
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Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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The most important feature of the Chess position is the activity of the pieces. This is absolutely fundamental in all…
— Michael Stean
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Creativity comes from constraint.
— Biz Stone
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