Mark Helprin Short Quotes

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

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If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.

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How far do you have to go before you forgive yourself for how you were born?

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

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I've imagined great victories, and I've imagined great races. The races are better.

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"And how does God speak to you?"
"In the language of everything that is beautiful."

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I write because it is a way of glimpsing the truth. And I write to create something of beauty.

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

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

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They gave themselves up to the stars the way swimmers can surrender to the waves, and the stars took them without resistance.

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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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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 years.

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We are all perfect clocks that the Divinity has set to ticking when, even before birth, the heart explodes into its lifelong dance.

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They're not just dreams. Not anymore, I dream more than I wake now, and, at times, I have crossed over. Can't you see? I've been there.

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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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This marvelous graceful thing, this joy of physics, this perfect balance between rebellion and obedience, is God's own signature on earth.

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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.

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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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Give me a night by the fire, with a book in my hand, not that flickering rectangular son of a bitch that sits screaming in every living room in the land.

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Whatever I do I've always done not because I want something but to compensate for a loss, to bring about a balance, to create amends, to make things right.

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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 a kick like a mule.

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And if you were a spirit, and time did not bind you, and patience and love were all you knew, then there you would wait for someone to return, and the story to unfold.

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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 what you have inside you from the beginning.

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There's something about rushing water that I can watch for hours and feel as if I need to do nothing more. It's alive in a way that's greater than any description of it.

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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.

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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 of how vulnerable they were to time.

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I returned to walking up the mountain, and there, in the dim asexual beauty of reddening dawns and skies that firmed to blue, I discovered my real and appropriate strengths.

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When you die, you know, you hear the insistent pounding that defines all things, whether of matter or energy, since there is nothing in the universe, really, but proportion.

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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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