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Mark Helprin quotes

American Novelist June 28, 1947

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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. Mark Helprin
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. Mark Helprin
Mark Helprin quote: "Truth is no rounder than a horse's eye."
Truth is no rounder than a horse's eye. Mark Helprin
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
Mark Helprin quote: "Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression."
Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression. Mark Helprin
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... Mark Helprin
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. Mark Helprin
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. Mark Helprin
Not surprisingly, he began to sing, and because no one in the world could hear him, and he sang without inhibition, he sang well. Mark Helprin
Mark Helprin quote: "I've imagined great victories, and I've imagined great races...."
I've imagined great victories, and I've imagined great races. The races are better. Mark Helprin
All great discoveries...are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents. Mark Helprin
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 letter to the editor. Mark Helprin
All these things were shaken about within Peter Lake like pots and pans banging against the side of a peddler's swaybacked horse. It was hard to bear the weight of partial revelations which refused to venture past the tip of his tongue. Mark Helprin
Mark Helprin quote: "Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all..."
Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived. Mark Helprin
They gave themselves up to the stars the way swimmers can surrender to the waves, and the stars took them without resistance. Mark Helprin

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