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Peter Matthiessen quotes: The shadow of sharks is the shadow of death, and they call forth dim ultimate fears. Yet there is something holy in their silence.

The shadow of sharks is the shadow of death, and they call forth dim ultimate fears. Yet there is something holy in their silence.

Peter Matthiessen quotes: In this toxic atmosphere, good intentions are eroding like the noses of stone gargoyles on cathedral peaks.

In this toxic atmosphere, good intentions are eroding like the noses of stone gargoyles on cathedral peaks.

Peter Matthiessen quotes: Illuminated by the same joyful curiosity and erudition, lyric writing, and plain love of life that made a classic of Archie Carr's The Windward Road.

Illuminated by the same joyful curiosity and erudition, lyric writing, and plain love of life that made a classic of Archie Carr's The Windward Road.

Peter Matthiessen quotes: The pig had been killed because spirits, like people, cannot resist the smell of cooking pig.

The pig had been killed because spirits, like people, cannot resist the smell of cooking pig.

Peter Matthiessen quotes: The purpose of our life is to help others through it.

The purpose of our life is to help others through it.

Peter Matthiessen quotes: This man would rob them graves himself, being some way starved by life, bone greedy.

This man would rob them graves himself, being some way starved by life, bone greedy.

Peter Matthiessen quotes: There is a difference between right and wrong, always was and always will be, but each man's wrong and each man's right are different.

There is a difference between right and wrong, always was and always will be, but each man's wrong and each man's right are different.

Peter Matthiessen quotes: In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

Peter Matthiessen quotes: This is a fine chance to let go, to "win my life by losing it," which means not recklessness but acceptance, not passivity but nonattachment.

This is a fine chance to let go, to "win my life by losing it," which means not recklessness but acceptance, not passivity but nonattachment.

Peter Matthiessen quotes: Anyone who thinks they can save the world is both wrong and dangerous

Anyone who thinks they can save the world is both wrong and dangerous

Peter Matthiessen quotes: I think in any writing you're paying attention to detail.

I think in any writing you're paying attention to detail.

Peter Matthiessen quotes: You truly see by not trying to see.

You truly see by not trying to see.

Peter Matthiessen quotes: If we were doomed to live forever, we would scarcely be aware of the beauty around us.

If we were doomed to live forever, we would scarcely be aware of the beauty around us.

Peter Matthiessen quotes: The Zen expression "Kill the Buddha!" means to kill any concept of the Buddha as something apart from oneself.

The Zen expression "Kill the Buddha!" means to kill any concept of the Buddha as something apart from oneself.

Peter Matthiessen quotes: The concept of conservation is a far truer sign of civilization than that spoilation of a continent which we once confused with progress.

The concept of conservation is a far truer sign of civilization than that spoilation of a continent which we once confused with progress.

Peter Matthiessen quotes: It is difficult to adjust because I do not know who is adjusting; I am no longer that old person and not yet the new.

It is difficult to adjust because I do not know who is adjusting; I am no longer that old person and not yet the new.

Peter Matthiessen quotes: Small bits of life crawled and flew about the ward on ancient business.

Small bits of life crawled and flew about the ward on ancient business.

Peter Matthiessen quotes: This world is painted on a wild dark metal

This world is painted on a wild dark metal

Peter Matthiessen quotes: You could of heard a spider sip a breath.

You could of heard a spider sip a breath.

Peter Matthiessen quotes: Webster said, 'Time them skeeters get done with that old man, his French blood will be all gone and he will speak American as good as we do.

Webster said, 'Time them skeeters get done with that old man, his French blood will be all gone and he will speak American as good as we do.

Peter Matthiessen quotes: You do your best work when you're not conscious of yourself.

You do your best work when you're not conscious of yourself.

Peter Matthiessen quotes: And as the wary dogs skirt past, we nod, grimace, and resume our paths to separate destinies and graves.

And as the wary dogs skirt past, we nod, grimace, and resume our paths to separate destinies and graves.

Peter Matthiessen quotes: There are no roads west of Pohkara, which is the last outpost of the modern world; in one days walk we are a century away.

There are no roads west of Pohkara, which is the last outpost of the modern world; in one days walk we are a century away.

Peter Matthiessen quotes: Be light, light, light - full of light!

Be light, light, light - full of light!

Peter Matthiessen quotes: I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.

I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.

Peter Matthiessen quotes: The sun, coming hard around the world: the island rises from the sea, sinks, rises, holds.

The sun, coming hard around the world: the island rises from the sea, sinks, rises, holds.

Peter Matthiessen quotes: Simultaneously I am myself, the child I was, the old man I will be.

Simultaneously I am myself, the child I was, the old man I will be.

Peter Matthiessen quotes: Alec Wilkinson is a spare, clear, and lucid writer who works in stylistic simplicity with material that is not simple at all.

Alec Wilkinson is a spare, clear, and lucid writer who works in stylistic simplicity with material that is not simple at all.

Peter Matthiessen quotes: I was overtaken by a dread of utter solitude in the great turning world.

I was overtaken by a dread of utter solitude in the great turning world.

Peter Matthiessen quotes: I nod to Death in passing, aware of the sound of my own feet upon my path. The

I nod to Death in passing, aware of the sound of my own feet upon my path. The

Peter Matthiessen quotes: In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.

In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.

Peter Matthiessen quotes: Sometimes the women much resent the men who call for war and have been known to rush upon them and beat them severely about the head and shoulders.

Sometimes the women much resent the men who call for war and have been known to rush upon them and beat them severely about the head and shoulders.

Peter Matthiessen quotes: My eye is fixed not on the ending of the book but on the feeling of that ending.

My eye is fixed not on the ending of the book but on the feeling of that ending.

Peter Matthiessen quotes: Well, he was scarcely a parfit gentil knight; as Wolfie said, he looked like some Hollywood Geronimo trying to kick a ninety-dollar habit.

Well, he was scarcely a parfit gentil knight; as Wolfie said, he looked like some Hollywood Geronimo trying to kick a ninety-dollar habit.

Peter Matthiessen quotes: In zazen, one is one's present self, what one was, and what one will be, all at once.

In zazen, one is one's present self, what one was, and what one will be, all at once.

Peter Matthiessen quotes: Figures dark beneath their loads pass down the far bank of the river, rendered immortal by the streak of sunset upon their shoulders

Figures dark beneath their loads pass down the far bank of the river, rendered immortal by the streak of sunset upon their shoulders

Peter Matthiessen quotes: Simplicity is the whole secret of well-being.

Simplicity is the whole secret of well-being.

Peter Matthiessen quotes: We have outsmarted ourselves, like greedy monkeys, and now we are full of dread.

We have outsmarted ourselves, like greedy monkeys, and now we are full of dread.