Mark Helprin Quotes - Page 2

• 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 a living

  Mark Helprin

  Clever, Soul, Requirements

  Mark Helprin (2005). “A Soldier of the Great War”, p.520, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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 the difference between the 'Soave sia il vento' and 'Kentucky Woman.' We have different words for 'art' and 'idea' because they are two different things.

  Mark Helprin

  Art, Differences, Kentucky

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• In daily life language is important, if not in itself, then as a symptom.

  Mark Helprin

  Important, Language, Daily Life

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• For what can be imagined more beautiful than the sight of a perfectly just city rejoicing in justice alone.

  Mark Helprin

  Beautiful, Sight, Cities

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.337, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm not afraid," Rafi said. "Why not?" "If I die tomorrow it will have been useless to have been afraid today.

  Mark Helprin

  Why Not, Useless, Today

  Mark Helprin (2005). “A Soldier of the Great War”, p.197, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ...esta gracia maravillosa, esta alegría de la física, este equilibrio perfecto entre rebelión y obediencia, es la propia firma de Dios en la tierra.

  Mark Helprin

  Perfect, Joy, Balance

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Give the money directly to people who work hard. Instead of taking the money from the business and then filtering it through the horror of government programs, which is essentially giving it to social workers who live in Bethesda so they can drive their minivans and vote Democratic. Give them the money, so that they go and talk to the worker who is washing dishes, and they say, "Well, we want to help you, you see." And it would be better to help them by taking the money from that minivan-driving social worker and giving it directly to the guy who is really working hard by washing dishes.

  Mark Helprin

  Hard Work, Government, Giving

  Fuente: americasfuture.org

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• All rivers run full to the sea; those who are apart are brought together; the lost ones are redeemed; the dead come back to life; the perfectly blue days that have begun and ended in golden dimness continue, immobile and accessible; and, when all is perceived in such a way as to obviate time, justice becomes apparent not as something that will be, but something that is.

  Mark Helprin

  Running, Blue, Lost Ones

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.415, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• La guerre, la guerre, everything la guerre. That's how I grew up. So for me, it's real. It's not something in the past.

  Mark Helprin

  Real, Past, Grew Up

  Fuente: americasfuture.org

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• It's a defining difference, curiosity. I've never known a stupid person who was curious, or a curious person who was stupid.

  Mark Helprin

  Stupid, Differences, Curiosity

  Mark Helprin (2012). “In Sunlight and In Shadow”, p.531, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A good river is nature's life work in song.

  Mark Helprin

  Song, Rivers

  Mark Helprin (2005). “Freddy and Fredericka”, p.238, Penguin

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• If nothing is random, and everything is predetermined, how can there be free will? The answer to that is simple. Nothing is predetermined; it is determined, or was determined, or will be determined.

  Mark Helprin

  Simple, Answers, Determined

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.414, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is justice in the world, Peter Lake, but it cannot be had without mystery.

  Mark Helprin

  Lakes, Justice, World

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He knew very well that love could be like the most beautiful singing, that it could make death inconsequential, that it existed in forms so pure and strong that it was capable of reordering the universe. He knew this, and that he lacked it, and yet as he stood in the courtyard of the Palazzo Venezia, watching diplomats file quietly out the gate, he was content, for he suspected that to command the profoundest love might in the end be far less beautiful a thing than to suffer its absence.

  Mark Helprin

  Beautiful, Strong, Singing

  Mark Helprin (2005). “A Soldier of the Great War”, p.155, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• El sacerdote vudú y todos sus polvos no eran nada comparados con el espresso, el capuchino y el moca, que son más fuertes que todas las religiones del mundo juntas, y quizá más fuertes que la propia alma humana.

  Mark Helprin

  Coffee, Espresso, Soul

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• 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 was half naked, it was dawn and he loved her.

  Mark Helprin

  Dawn, Naked, Half

  Mark Helprin (1989). “Winter's Tale”, Pocket Books

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• Because there were all kinds of hell - some were black and dirty, and some were silvery and high.

  Mark Helprin

  Dirty, Heaven, Black

  Mark Helprin (2014). “A New York Winter's Tale”, p.252, Pan Macmillan

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• New technologies will always demand and deserve careful navigation and difficult readjustments. But the weakening or de facto abolition of copyright will not merely roil the seas, it will drain them dry. Those who would pirate what you produce have developed an elaborate sophistry to convince you that they are your victim. They aren't. Fight back.

  Mark Helprin

  Fighting, Technology, Sea

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• I made a boy's mistake, common enough, of thinking that real life was knowing many things and many people, living dangerously in faraway places, crossing the sea, or starting a power company on the Columbia River, a steamship line in Bolivia.

  Mark Helprin

  Real, Mistake, Boys

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• Murió un día gris y ventoso de marzo, cuando el cielo estaba lleno de cuervos y el mundo yacía postrado y derrotado tras el invierno. Peter Lake estaba a su lado y eso le arruinó para siempre. Le destrozó como nunca había imaginado que le destrozarían. Nunca volvería a ser joven, ni a recordar lo que era ser joven. Lo que una vez había tomado por placeres se le aparecería en su derrota como castigos horribles y merecidos por una vanidad imprudente.

  Mark Helprin

  Taken, Winter, Lakes

  Mark Helprin (1989). “Winter's Tale”, Pocket Books

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• 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 to be at best a momentary joy followed instantly by sadness, and, then, of necessity, by wariness.

  Mark Helprin

  Sadness, Judging, Joy

  "Digital Barbarism: A Writer's Manifesto". Book by Mark Helprin, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 15, 2009.

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• Winter then in its early and clear stages, was a purifying engine that ran unhindered over city and country, alerting the stars to sparkle violently and shower their silver light into the arms of bare upreaching trees. It was a mad and beautiful thing that scoured raw the souls of animals and man, driving them before it until they loved to run. And what it did to Northern forests can hardly be described, considering that it iced the branches of the sycamores on Chrystie Street and swept them back and forth until they rang like ranks of bells.

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  Amor, Hermoso, País

  Mark Helprin (2014). “A New York Winter's Tale”, p.227, Pan Macmillan

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• He imaginado grandes victorias, y he imaginado grandes carreras. Las carreras son mejores.

  Mark Helprin

  Race, Victory, Great Race

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.275, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you know anything about Islamic civilization, or about the contemporary Middle East, about the sociology and the anthropology of the people who live there, and their recent history, and their religion, and their motivation and everything, then you realize that changing Iraq into a democracy is not going to happen. It's just not going to happen.

  Mark Helprin

  Motivation, Islamic, Civilization

  Fuente: americasfuture.org

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• My father ran London Films. He made films like 'The Red Shoes,' 'The Third Man.' And he had had a long career in the film business, which was bifurcated with a career in intelligence. He had to deal with gangsters, and sometimes he would take me with him. Also, I went to school with their children.

  Mark Helprin

  Children, Father, School

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