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Work Quotes by Mark Helprin
- I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary.
- '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…
- Mozart and Neil Diamond may have begun with the same idea, but that a work of art is more than an idea is confirmed by…
- 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…
- A good river is nature's life work in song.
- 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…
- No good case exists for the inequality of real and intellectual property, because no good case can exist for treating with special disfavor the work…
- Of course, everyone in the New World is an immigrant or a descendant of immigrants, and immigrants have built America and continue to do so.…
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- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to… — Kevin Bacon
- Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me… — Lucille Ball
- Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson