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From Quotes by Mark Helprin
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 'Freeing' a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of American writers to…
- Justice can sleep for years and awaken when it is least expected. A miracle is nothing more than dormant justice from another time arriving to…
- Such a thing as the child left alone to die in the hallway was unknown on the marsh. But here, in the dawn, was mortality…
- Perhaps he was a fool, but he thought that if a work were truly great you would only have to read it once and you…
- As the clockwork of the millennia moved a notch in front of their eyes, it had taken their thoughts from small things and reminded them…
- We launch our souls from the cannons of art and discipline, and on any one night, hovering over the chimney tops of Europe, halfway to…
- One thing you will discover is that life is based less than you think on what you’ve learned and much more than you think on…
- Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived.
- The trick in nuclear strategy is to maintain stability by balancing potentials and thus to discourage events from converting the hypothetical to the actual.
- If Shakespeare thought comedy worthwhile, that means the rest of us can take a break from tragedy now and then without betraying our calling, even…
- The British monarchy has the political and constitutional task of subtracting from the government and governors of Britain the papal and kingly airs that in…
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