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Been Quotes by Mark Helprin
- 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.
- She knew words no one had ever heard of, and she used words every day that had been mainly dead or sleeping for hundreds of…
- I'm not afraid," Rafi said. "Why not?" "If I die tomorrow it will have been useless to have been afraid today.
- He could say nothing. He had no right to be there, he had already been profoundly changed, he was no good at small talk, she…
- and even when I was broken the way sometimes one can be broken, and even though I had fallen, I found upon arising that I…
- She died on a windy gray day in March when the sky was full of darting crows and the world lay prostrate and defeated after…
- They're not just dreams. Not anymore, I dream more than I wake now, and, at times, I have crossed over. Can't you see? I've been…
- I was raised on the Hudson, in a house that had been the stable of the financier and Civil War general Brayton Ives. In midcentury,…
- As much as I love art, there is no art as fine as the world we have been given.
More Been Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour