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Mark Helprin Quotes

At least until there are new lakes in the clouds that open upon living cities as yet unknown, and perhaps forever, that is a question which you must answer within your own heart Picture Quote #1

In living, one muddles through the years for the sake of those one or two moments which are indisputably great Picture Quote #1

An old man with a cane may discover that his many years have added nothing to his innocence but proof and explanation, and that, as much as he may have learned in his long life, he cannot see as far as he could see when he was seven Picture Quote #1

They danced on the shore in marvelous, civilized, humorous reels in which the old contributed wit when they could not contribute grace, and the young listened to their elders, who told them in their dancing to hold on, to love, to be patient, and most of all, to trust Picture Quote #1

The intellect is of no use unless it's disciplined by the mortification of the flesh, so that it may serve the soul Picture Quote #1

Many people just like to show that they're thinking the right thoughts. And as the 'right' thoughts change like the wind, so do they Picture Quote #1

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Anticipation is the heart of wisdom. If you are going to cross a desert, you anticipate that you will be thirsty, and you take water Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Though the house itself was a fortress, still, Isaac Penn had thought to make sure that anyone who did manage to break in would be kept busy. Thus the vault was not a vault but rather a solid plug of molybdenum steel which extended into the wall for five feet Picture Quote #1

It is said that marriage is a long war between ancient families trapped in close proximity by lust Picture Quote #1

Sometimes love is taken away unjustly, but not until the very end do you stop believing and then it is very bitter. It is bitter because somewhere within you the perfect standard still lives, the pure expectation against which failure and betrayal are contrasted like the dark shadows on a moonlit road Picture Quote #1

How just it would be if for our final reward we were to be made the masters of time, and if those we love could come alive again not just in memory, but in truth Picture Quote #1

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Then, just at the peak of complacency, when it was assumed that the climate of the world had changed forever, when the conductor of the philharmonic played Vivaldi's Four Seasons and left out an entire movement, and when to children of a young age stories of winter were told as if they were fairy tales, New York was hit by a cataclysmic freeze, and, once again, people huddled together to talk fearfully of the millennium Picture Quote #1

They had taken to the movement unlike anything he had ever seen, and he thought that should this venture of the Jews prove successful, the new state would be filled with dancers and musicians, but especially dancers, for dancing like nothing else says: I am still alive Picture Quote #1

It was a good speech, but the reaction was due to the fact that politics are madness, and even if one does not know it, a country in electoral season experiences flares of lunacy like the great storms that sometimes march across the golden surface of the sun Picture Quote #1

We ate simply, we were healthy, and we were uninterested in those things that should be called possessions not because they are possessed but because they possess. Those ten years were the happiest of my life save the first ten, the years in which I had neither position nor success, and no one took notice of me. Those were the years of the parent holding the child in his arms, lifting him high in the air, and pulling him close. As I held my own son, when he was a baby, God was right there Picture Quote #1

All great discoveries... are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funny, the intensity and length of their laughter mirrors the depth of their loneliness, and they are capable of laughing like hyenas. When something touches their emotions, it runs through them like Paul Revere, awakening feelings that gather into great armies Picture Quote #1

The obituary writers drew their incomplete sketches, touring through his life like travelers to England who do not ever see swans, sheep, bicycles, and blue eyes Picture Quote #1

Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Not surprisingly, he began to sing, and because no one in the world could hear him, and he sang without inhibition, he sang well Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

What I did with his automobile was fairly dramatic and somewhat risky, but still a lot easier than finding a parking place on the Upper East Side Picture Quote #1

Rigel, Betelgeuse, and Orion. There was no finer church, no finer choir, than the stars speaking in silence to the many consumptives silently condemned, a legion upon the dark rooftops. The wind came down from the north like a runner in lacrosse, violent and hard, to batter every living thing. They were there, each one alone in conversation with the stars, mining ephemeral love from cold and distant light Picture Quote #1

You can't expect anyone to trust revelation if he hasn't experienced it himself. Those who haven't only know reason. And since revelation is a thing apart, and cannot be accounted for reasonably, they never will believe you. This is the great division of the world and always has been. When reason and revelation run together, why, then you have something great, a great age Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

They got up steam and proceeded calmly to the north - where there seemed to be no people, but only mountains, lakes, reedy snow-filled steppes, and winter gods who played with storms and stars Picture Quote #1

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At least until there are new lakes in the clouds that open upon living cities as yet unknown, and perhaps forever, that is a question which you must answer within your own heart (Mark Helprin Quotes) In living, one muddles through the years for the sake of those one or two moments which are indisputably great (Mark Helprin Quotes) An old man with a cane may discover that his many years have added nothing to his innocence but proof and explanation, and that, as much as he may have learned in his long life, he cannot see as far as he could see when he was seven (Mark Helprin Quotes) They danced on the shore in marvelous, civilized, humorous reels in which the old contributed wit when they could not contribute grace, and the young listened to their elders, who told them in their dancing to hold on, to love, to be patient, and most of all, to trust (Mark Helprin Quotes) The intellect is of no use unless it's disciplined by the mortification of the flesh, so that it may serve the soul (Mark Helprin Quotes) Many people just like to show that they're thinking the right thoughts. And as the 'right' thoughts change like the wind, so do they (Mark Helprin Quotes) Anticipation is the heart of wisdom. If you are going to cross a desert, you anticipate that you will be thirsty, and you take water (Mark Helprin Quotes) 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 (Mark Helprin Quotes) Though the house itself was a fortress, still, Isaac Penn had thought to make sure that anyone who did manage to break in would be kept busy. Thus the vault was not a vault but rather a solid plug of molybdenum steel which extended into the wall for five feet (Mark Helprin Quotes) It is said that marriage is a long war between ancient families trapped in close proximity by lust (Mark Helprin Quotes) Sometimes love is taken away unjustly, but not until the very end do you stop believing and then it is very bitter. It is bitter because somewhere within you the perfect standard still lives, the pure expectation against which failure and betrayal are contrasted like the dark shadows on a moonlit road (Mark Helprin Quotes) How just it would be if for our final reward we were to be made the masters of time, and if those we love could come alive again not just in memory, but in truth (Mark Helprin Quotes) Then, just at the peak of complacency, when it was assumed that the climate of the world had changed forever, when the conductor of the philharmonic played Vivaldi's Four Seasons and left out an entire movement, and when to children of a young age stories of winter were told as if they were fairy tales, New York was hit by a cataclysmic freeze, and, once again, people huddled together to talk fearfully of the millennium (Mark Helprin Quotes) They had taken to the movement unlike anything he had ever seen, and he thought that should this venture of the Jews prove successful, the new state would be filled with dancers and musicians, but especially dancers, for dancing like nothing else says: I am still alive (Mark Helprin Quotes) It was a good speech, but the reaction was due to the fact that politics are madness, and even if one does not know it, a country in electoral season experiences flares of lunacy like the great storms that sometimes march across the golden surface of the sun (Mark Helprin Quotes) We ate simply, we were healthy, and we were uninterested in those things that should be called possessions not because they are possessed but because they possess. Those ten years were the happiest of my life save the first ten, the years in which I had neither position nor success, and no one took notice of me. Those were the years of the parent holding the child in his arms, lifting him high in the air, and pulling him close. As I held my own son, when he was a baby, God was right there (Mark Helprin Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 (Mark Helprin Quotes) ... this marvelous graceful thing, this joy of physics, this perfect balance between rebellion and obedience, is God's own signature on earth (Mark Helprin Quotes) Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funny, the intensity and length of their laughter mirrors the depth of their loneliness, and they are capable of laughing like hyenas. When something touches their emotions, it runs through them like Paul Revere, awakening feelings that gather into great armies (Mark Helprin Quotes) The obituary writers drew their incomplete sketches, touring through his life like travelers to England who do not ever see swans, sheep, bicycles, and blue eyes (Mark Helprin Quotes) Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived (Mark Helprin Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) What I did with his automobile was fairly dramatic and somewhat risky, but still a lot easier than finding a parking place on the Upper East Side (Mark Helprin Quotes) Rigel, Betelgeuse, and Orion. There was no finer church, no finer choir, than the stars speaking in silence to the many consumptives silently condemned, a legion upon the dark rooftops. The wind came down from the north like a runner in lacrosse, violent and hard, to batter every living thing. They were there, each one alone in conversation with the stars, mining ephemeral love from cold and distant light (Mark Helprin Quotes) You can't expect anyone to trust revelation if he hasn't experienced it himself. Those who haven't only know reason. And since revelation is a thing apart, and cannot be accounted for reasonably, they never will believe you. This is the great division of the world and always has been. When reason and revelation run together, why, then you have something great, a great age (Mark Helprin Quotes) 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 (Mark Helprin Quotes) They got up steam and proceeded calmly to the north - where there seemed to be no people, but only mountains, lakes, reedy snow-filled steppes, and winter gods who played with storms and stars (Mark Helprin Quotes)

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