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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.
— Mark Helprin
I'm not afraid," Rafi said."Why not?"
"If I die tomorrow it will have been useless to have been afraid today. — Mark Helprin
strength floods in after a fall.
— Mark Helprin
Potatoes have much more staying power than caviar.
— Mark Helprin
Life is so quick that it's all played out at the gates of death, and the value of resolution is that it quickens life.
— Mark Helprin
I wanted the music to be full, to surround us, to lift us like the swell, so I rented a bloody orchestra. You only live once.
— Mark Helprin
Only bad actors memorize lines. Good actors are perpetually writing them as they act.
— Mark Helprin
No one knows better than I that it's all here, and need not be explained or interpreted - just seized.
— Mark Helprin
It's the devil's nectar. It's filthy and unhealthy. -Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case, referring to coffee (1995)
— Eugene Wells
Disdain is only as intense as similarity.
— Mark Helprin
To be paid for one's joy is to steal.
— Mark Helprin
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
The best thing in the world is the truth. You find it out anyway, in the end, or sooner.
— Mark Helprin
He felt as if he were paying for the privilege of music with portions of his life and body. But it was well worth it.
— Mark Helprin
I have been fighting over commas all my life.
— Mark Helprin
For what can be imagined more beautiful than the sight of a perfectly just city rejoicing in justice alone.
— Mark Helprin
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
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
Truth is no rounder than a horse's eye.
— Mark Helprin
Critics can neither build nor explore. All they do, really, is say yes or no - and complicate it.
— Mark Helprin
Because there were all kinds of hell - some were black and dirty, and some were silvery and high.
— Mark Helprin
I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary.
— Mark Helprin
It was easy to argue with Quagliagliarello, if you had patience, and if you could pronounce his name.
— Mark Helprin
to cite Montaigne, "Nature always gives us happier laws than those we give ourselves."125
— Mark Helprin
Her eyes showed that though she may have decided to regret him, as long as he was in her presence she could not.
— Mark Helprin
He heard the Baymen tell of war, but they never said it could be harnessed, its head held down, and made to run in place.
— Mark Helprin
What is apparent is not always what is true.
— Mark Helprin
The greatest fight is when you are fighting in the smoke and cannot see with your eyes.
— Mark Helprin
If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.
— Mark Helprin
I've never had a cup of coffee in my life. I can't even remain in the same room with coffee.
— Mark Helprin
He wanted actually to live inside the dream that captured his eye, to spend his days and nights in a fume of burnished gold.
— Mark Helprin
The best thing to do was to stop it while he still could, since it was something that would lead nowhere, painfully.
— Mark Helprin
If you don't have compassion you won't be compelled to help.
— Mark Helprin
One shouldn't ever do anything to protect one's dignity. You either have it or you don't.
— Mark Helprin
In living, one muddles through the years for the sake of those one or two moments which are indisputably great.
— Mark Helprin
One of the things I worked very hard on all my life was to be like everyone else. I tried very hard to fit in.
— Mark Helprin
Those who are vain have little ability to feel grateful.
— Mark Helprin
Fear, delight, and being twenty were made for each other:
— Mark Helprin
They knew that to survive in Manhattan he would have to know something of bitterness before he arrived.
— Mark Helprin
For the first time in his life, he felt exactly what he was, and he was not impressed.
— Mark Helprin
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
A cat can outrace the best thoroughbred horse if only it can grasp the idea of racing.
— Mark Helprin
Alessandro learned yet again that the joy of escape is better than the joy of merely being free.
— Mark Helprin
We are all perfect clocks that the Divinity has set to ticking when, even before birth, the heart explodes into its lifelong dance.
— Mark Helprin
Souls are complicated things.
— Mark Helprin
I was brought up,' Freddy informed him, 'not to suffer anxiety about decisive initiative of all types.
— Mark Helprin
When people ask me why is 'Winter's Tale' a fantasy, I point out that it is not a fantasy.
— Mark Helprin
They move, don't they? Who do you think sets things to moving? Nothing that moves lacks a soul.
— Mark Helprin
Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived.
— Mark Helprin
A good river is nature's life work in song.
— Mark Helprin
he quickly became like so many people in New York; that is, comfortable, forgotten, and alone. Though
— Mark Helprin
For a gift that does not find balance and a service that is not returned are worth less than a curse.
— Mark Helprin
I didn't know the world could be like this ... I've never seen the sky in such a passion of kindness.
— Mark Helprin
Heavy blizzards start as a gentle and persistent snow.
— Mark Helprin
When faced with something I fear, I tend to eat spaghetti.
— Mark Helprin
I have jumped out of airplanes but I was not technically a paratrooper. I was an infantryman and a night fighter, anti-terrorist.
— 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
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
His name was Peter Lake, and he said to himself out loud, You're in bad shape when a horse takes pity on you, you stupid bastard,
— Mark Helprin
When soldiers go home, their first desire, whether they know it or not, is to have children, children being the only antidote for war.
— Mark Helprin
The greatest blizzards start with the finest snow.
— Mark Helprin
Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.
— Mark Helprin