Peter Matthiessen Quotes

• For sometime I watch the coming of the night… Above is the glistening galaxy of childhood, now hidden in the Western world by air pollution and the glare of artificial light; for my children’s children, the power, peace and healing of the night will be obliterated.

  Peter Matthiessen

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• At Play In The Fields Of  The Lord.

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• When I’m in the field, when I’m working, I keep very careful notes. I wear big shirts with big breast pockets, and I carry in them two little spiral notebooks.

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

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• In fiction, you have a rough idea what’s coming up next – sometimes you even make a little outline – but in fact you don’t know. Each day is a whole new – and for me, a very invigorating – experience.

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• I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism – those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes.

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

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

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• Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined – how is it that this safe return brings such regret?

  Peter Matthiessen

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Peter Matthiessen (9)

Birth:	27th May, 1927
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Novelist, Writer

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