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Peter Matthiessen

"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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"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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Amber Hurdle

"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."

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Amber Hurdle

"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."

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Amber Hurdle

"I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!"

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Amber Hurdle

"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience."

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Amber Hurdle

"You can teach a person all you know, but only experience will convince him that what you say is true."

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Amber Hurdle

"The possibility of injury or death was a strong attraction: as the online world became more and more pre-edited and slicked up, and as even its so-called reality sites raised questions about authenticity in the minds of the viewers, the rough, unpolished physical world was taking on a mystic allure."

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Amber Hurdle

"The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing."

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Amber Hurdle

"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience."

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Amber Hurdle

"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."

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Amber Hurdle

"The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings."

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Peter Matthiessen
"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?"

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

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Peter Matthiessen
"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."

Experience

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

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

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