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Peter Matthiessen

"In the clearness of this Himalayan air, mountains draw near, and in such splendor, tears come quietly to my eyes and cool on my sunburned cheeks.Â this is not mere soft-mindedness, nor am I all that silly with the altitude.Â My head has cleared in these weeks free of intrusions- mail, telephones, people and their needs- and I respond to things spontaneously, without defensive or self-conscious screens.Â Still, all this feeling is astonishing: not so long ago I could say truthfully that I had not shed a tear in twenty years."

Source : Peter Matthiessen (2008). “The Snow Leopard”, p.138, Penguin

Peter Matthiessen

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“Modesty is the artifice of actors, similar to passion in call girls.”
“But the fundamentalists, the "creationists," seize upon these vacancies in the scientific hotel to pack the conferences with their delegates. They see the opening-creativity is an absolute-and they equate that absolute with their mythic god, and they stuff this god with all the characteristics that promote their own egoic inclinations, starting with the fact that if you don't believe in this particular god, you fry in hell forever, which is not exactly a generous view of Spirit.”
“It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.”
“The lesson has already been learned with alcohol prohibition. We tried to engineer an alcohol-free society and ended up with huge criminal enterprises, government corruption, children lured into organized crime and random violence that took the lives of countless innocent people.”
“I had been thinking for a while about how bored and tired I was of playing straight-down-the-middle everymanish characters that have what I call white guy problems. And I missed playing characters who lacked dignity and more importantly, lacked social skills.”
“I'm very attracted to Indians.”
“Evolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the differing intuitions we have when we are faced with an individual rather than with a mass of people, or with people close to us rather than with those far away, but it does not justify those feelings.”
“And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?”

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