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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
In this toxic atmosphere, good intentions are eroding like the noses of stone gargoyles on cathedral peaks.
— Peter Matthiessen
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
The pig had been killed because spirits, like people, cannot resist the smell of cooking pig.
— Peter Matthiessen
The purpose of our life is to help others through it.
— Peter Matthiessen
This man would rob them graves himself, being some way starved by life, bone greedy.
— Peter Matthiessen
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
In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.
— Peter Matthiessen
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
Anyone who thinks they can save the world is both wrong and dangerous
— Peter Matthiessen
I think in any writing you're paying attention to detail.
— Peter Matthiessen
You truly see by not trying to see.
— Peter Matthiessen
If we were doomed to live forever, we would scarcely be aware of the beauty around us.
— Peter Matthiessen
The Zen expression "Kill the Buddha!" means to kill any concept of the Buddha as something apart from oneself.
— Peter Matthiessen
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
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
Small bits of life crawled and flew about the ward on ancient business.
— Peter Matthiessen
This world is painted on a wild dark metal
— Peter Matthiessen
You could of heard a spider sip a breath.
— Peter Matthiessen
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
You do your best work when you're not conscious of yourself.
— Peter Matthiessen
And as the wary dogs skirt past, we nod, grimace, and resume our paths to separate destinies and graves.
— Peter Matthiessen
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
Be light, light, light - full of light!
— Peter Matthiessen
I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.
— Peter Matthiessen
The sun, coming hard around the world: the island rises from the sea, sinks, rises, holds.
— Peter Matthiessen
Simultaneously I am myself, the child I was, the old man I will be.
— Peter Matthiessen
Alec Wilkinson is a spare, clear, and lucid writer who works in stylistic simplicity with material that is not simple at all.
— Peter Matthiessen
I was overtaken by a dread of utter solitude in the great turning world.
— Peter Matthiessen
I nod to Death in passing, aware of the sound of my own feet upon my path. The
— Peter Matthiessen
In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.
— Peter Matthiessen
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
My eye is fixed not on the ending of the book but on the feeling of that ending.
— Peter Matthiessen
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
In zazen, one is one's present self, what one was, and what one will be, all at once.
— 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
— Peter Matthiessen
Simplicity is the whole secret of well-being.
— Peter Matthiessen
We have outsmarted ourselves, like greedy monkeys, and now we are full of dread.
— Peter Matthiessen