Mark Helprin Quotes - Page 4

• Lo que realmente me gusta es sentarme tranquilamente y escribir. Todo lo demás es un problema. Publicar para recibir para negociar para... todo, es un problema. Y me gusta sentarme fuera durante largos periodos de tiempo y simplemente estar en la tranquilidad de la naturaleza. Eso es lo que me gusta.

  Mark Helprin

  Writing, Long, Stuff

  Fuente: americasfuture.org

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• We should have absolute control over our borders. If we want cheap labor to depress wages and disempower the unions, then we could have guest workers. But we have to face that issue. What is it that we want to do? Rather than not facing it, and having porous borders, and the effect is that it disempowers the unions.

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  Depressing, Should Have, Issues

  Fuente: americasfuture.org

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• Writing is still my main career, but I would love, for instance, to serve in the New York State Assembly.

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  New York, Writing, Careers

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• People's position on immigration, once they get "sophisticated," and they rise to the higher levels of commentary or government, it's usually determined solely by economics. And not by anything else.

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  Government, People, Levels

  Fuente: americasfuture.org

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• The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy.

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  Race, Perfection, Victory

  Mark Helprin (2007). “Memoir from Antproof Case”, p.188, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Why do you think great leaders and great orations are coincident with wars, revolutions, and the founding or ending of governments and states? Common interests then are so clear that speeches are effortlessly drawn, but at present neither the facts nor the consequences are sufficiently clear to make oratory legitimate. This is the kind of war that will wind on and make fools of its partisans and opponents both.

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  Guerra, Pensamiento, Gobierno

  Mark Helprin (2005). “A Soldier of the Great War”, p.211, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Quite possibly there's nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That's when you learn that the tragedy of plants is that they have roots.

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  Verano, País, Viajes

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.290, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As it somehow always manages before the winter solstice, but never after, the early darkness was cheerful and promising, even for those who had nothing.

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  Winter, Darkness, Cheerful

  Mark Helprin (2014). “A New York Winter's Tale”, p.383, Pan Macmillan

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• Who said that justice is what you imagine? Can you be sure that you know it when you see it, that you will live long enough to recognize the decisive thunder of its occurrence, that it can be manifest within a generation, within ten generations, within the entire span of human existence? What you are talking about is common sense, not justice. Justice is higher and not as easy to understand - until it presents itself in unmistakable splendor. The design of which I speak is far above our understanding. But we can sometimes feel its presence.

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  Talking, Long, Common Sense

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Not surprisingly, he began to sing, and because no one in the world could hear him, and he sang without inhibition, he sang well.

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  World, Wells, Inhibitions

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.291, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And they'll vote for me because I'm the best liar, because I do it honestly, with a certain finesse. They know that lies and truth are very close, and that something beautiful rests between.

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  Beautiful, Liars, Lying

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.571, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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 itself. In the city were places to fall from which one could never emerge -- dark dreams and slow death, the death of children, suffering without grace or redemption, ultimate and eternal loss. The memory of the child stayed with him. But that was not to be the end of it, for reality went around in a twisting ring. Even the irredeemable would be redeemed, and there was a balance for everything. There had to be.

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  Sueño, Recuerdos, Niños

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• Truth is no rounder than a horse's eye.

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  Horse, Eye, Truth Is

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived.

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  Fighting, Justice, World

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.288, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The horse could not do without Manhattan. It drew him like a magnet, like a vacuum, like oats, or a mare, or an open, never-ending, tree-lined road.

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  Horse, Oats, Tree

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• When faced with something I fear, I tend to eat spaghetti.

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  Fear, Spaghetti

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• Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would have to be quite cavalier about your children's future.

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  Children, Growing Up, Odds

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• their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals.

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  Animal, Wind, Imagination

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

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• All great discoveries...are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents.

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  Air, Discovery, Two

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• Why do people resist [engines, bridges, and cities] so? They are symbols and products of the imagination, which is the force that ensures justice and historical momentum in an imperfect world, because without imagination we would not have the wherewithal to challenge certainty, and we could never rise above ourselves.

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  Imperfect World, Bridges, Cities

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.555, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• World War II is the war that made our world. There's no question about that. The history of all the years in which I will spend my life, every single one, that is the seminal event of the history that we will experience.

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  War, Our World, Years

  Fuente: americasfuture.org

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• I believe that Israel is very likely not to survive, it's not going to last forever, and now there's nothing that someone like me can do about it, in that it's a threat of nuclear or biological or chemical attack.

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  Believe, Israel, Forever

  Fuente: americasfuture.org

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• I have a particular dislike of human pride. And if you think that you can engineer outcomes, that's a manifestation of pride. Among other things, it's impractical. It just doesn't work. The world doesn't work that way.

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  Pride, Thinking, World

  Fuente: americasfuture.org

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• I suppose I could read more fiction, but I haven't moved in that direction. I'd like more time even though I spend six hours a day reading. People say their eyes get tired, but I've never experienced that. In college I used to read 10 hours a day. My wife says I'm obsessive compulsive. She might have a point because when I was an undergrad student we had the required reading list and the suggested reading list. I always read all the suggested reading too.

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  Reading, Tired, Eye

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• Heavy blizzards start as a gentle and persistent snow.

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  Snow, Heavy, Gentle

  Mark Helprin (2005). “A Soldier of the Great War”, p.170, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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