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One Quotes by Mark Helprin
- 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…
- 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…
- Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their…
- 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…
- Words were all he knew; they possessed and overwhelmed him, as if they were a thousand white cats with whom he shared a one-room apartment.
- 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…
- ...to be paid for one's joy is to steal.
- 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…
- The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had…
- Then the bow orchestra began to play an apocalyptically beautiful canon, one of those pieces in which, surely, the composer simply transcribed what was given,…
- 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…
- 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…
- It was a good speech, but the reaction was due to the fact that politics are madness, and even if one does not know it,…
- Not surprisingly, he began to sing, and because no one in the world could hear him, and he sang without inhibition, he sang well.
- I used to write exclusively with one particular Montblanc fountain pen, although lately I have had to use a roller-tip fountain pen, because I find…
- The craftless anarchy of the Beat poets on the one hand, and the extreme control of Henry James on the other, suggest that for most…
- In American military cemeteries all over the world, seemingly endless rows of whitened grave markers stand largely unvisited and in silence. The gardeners tend the…
- Not a single illegal immigrant should or need enter the United States, not one. Contrary to the common wisdom, the borders are easy to seal,…
- One of the things I worked very hard on all my life was to be like everyone else. I tried very hard to fit in.
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt