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Peter Matthiessen
 
Date of birth: 22 May 1927
Date of death: Alive (or unknown)
Country Of Origin: America
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" But even when I was a little boy, I would make strange lists - even of my phonograph records. I don't know why. "

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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? "

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

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

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" I was always writing something down. "

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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'm using my research, and I hope I'm shaping it properly and telling the story well, and you do the best you can with the language. "

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" I've always preferred sort of life on the edge - people who are desperate or cut off in some way, or loners, whatever. "

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

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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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