Mark Helprin Quotes

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• I saw how greatly he suffered the requirement of being clever. It separated him from his soul, and it didn't get him anything other than…
• The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the…
• Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.
• Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side, you keep walking,…
• From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency and cowardice. It…
• If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.
• Who said that justice is what you imagine? Can you be sure that you know it when you see it, that you will live long…
• No one ever said that you would live to see the repercussions of everything you do, or that you have guarantees, or that you are…
• Not born to be rich, by 1981 I had nonetheless begun to use a PC that required for its operation the absorption of several hundred…
• I have to confess that I have so rarely experienced triumph that I cannot claim to know it well enough to judge, but it seems…
• I have been fighting over commas all my life.
• To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has already been.
• ...I returned to walking up the mountain, and there, in the dim asexual beauty of reddening dawns and skies that firmed to blue, I discovered…
• Because there were all kinds of hell - some were black and dirty, and some were silvery and high.
• Rigel, Betelgeuse, and Orion. There was no finer church, no finer choir, than the stars speaking in silence to the many consumptives silently condemned, a…
• There's something about rushing water that I can watch for hours and feel as if I need to do nothing more. It's alive in a…
• Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would…
• I've never had a cup of coffee in my life. I can't even remain in the same room with coffee.
• I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary.
• It's a defining difference, curiosity. I've never known a stupid person who was curious, or a curious person who was stupid.

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