“A horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music.” — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“I wanted the music to be full, to surround us, to lift us like the swell, so I rented a bloody orchestra.… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
He felt as if he were paying for the privilege of music with portions of his life and body. But it was… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“I wish that, like you, I could have spent my life transported aloft, as it were, every day, in music. Instead, I've… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“Music was a chain forged half of silences and half of sound, love was nothing without longing and loss, and were time… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“They had taken to the movement unlike anything he had ever seen, and he thought that should this venture of the Jews… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
[When] he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy...Don't tell anyone, but when he reads… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that he likes he gets real happy, turns on the music, and dances by… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“The world had courage, faith, beauty, and love, and it had music, which, although not merely an abstraction, was equal to the… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“Now that music is faithfully reproducible, musicians are not needed as once they were. And music itself has changed. Though small cadres… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“Defiance, Catherine, is a gift of God, who is superior to nature. When nature comes to get you, honor God by treating it, as… — Mark Helprin Copy Share
Because there were all kinds of hell - some were black and dirty, and some were silvery and high. — Mark Helprin Copy Share
“In living, one muddles through the years for the sake of those one or two moments which are indisputably great.” — Mark Helprin Copy Share
“Do you know why you walk slowly when you’re old?” “No.” “Because with age you receive the gift of friction. The less time you… — Mark Helprin Copy Share
The British monarchy has the political and constitutional task of subtracting from the government and governors of Britain the papal and kingly airs that… — Mark Helprin Copy Share
“Your time is a good time, and though I have to leave, you can stay. How lucky you are to be in the city… — Mark Helprin Copy Share
They were dancing around the fountain, arm in arm, in an old Dutch dance, their cheeks touching, their hands entwined. They had no music;… — Mark Helprin Copy Share
For what can be imagined more beautiful than the sight of a perfectly just city rejoicing in justice alone. — Mark Helprin Copy Share
I follow my own nose. So I read things that are different. People will always say to me, "Have you read Robert S. Bosco's… — Mark Helprin Copy Share
“If all the months and all their days could be like June weather in New York, there would be paradise on earth. Often, in… — Mark Helprin Copy Share
“At least until there are new lakes in the clouds that open upon living cities as yet unknown, and perhaps forever, that is a… — Mark Helprin Copy Share
You will most appreciate 'Freddy and Fredericka' if you are familiar with the story of the Fall, the Good Hermit, 'Tom Jones,' 'Huckleberry Finn,'… — Mark Helprin Copy Share
their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals. — Mark Helprin Copy Share
'Freeing' a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of American writers… — Mark Helprin Copy Share
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