Mark Helprinand even when I was broken the way sometimes one can be broken, and even though I had fallen, I found upon arising that I was stronger than before, that the glories, if I may call… ▶371HopeLoveTime
Mark HelprinIt 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 … ▶373LifePoliticsTime
Mark HelprinTo see the beauty of the world is to put your hands on lines that run uninterrupted through life and through death. Touching them is an act of hope, for perhaps someone on the oth… ▶363DeathHopeLife
Mark HelprinMarxists 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.353Humanity
Mark HelprinFrom long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency and cowardice. It is what enables the soldier to die alone, … ▶331DeathPolitics
Mark HelprinJustice can sleep for years and awaken when it is least expected. A miracle is nothing more than dormant justice from another time arriving to compensate those it has cruelly aban… ▶375ReadingTime
Mark HelprinThey were dancing around the fountain, arm in arm, in an old Dutch dance, their cheeks touching, their hands entwined. They had no music; they hummed. And there was no reason for … ▶331Reflection
Mark HelprinNew technologies will always demand and deserve careful navigation and difficult readjustments. But the weakening or de facto abolition of copyright will not merely roil the seas,… ▶332ReadingTruth
Mark Helprin...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. 332Time
Mark HelprinWriting is still my main career, but I would love, for instance, to serve in the New York State Assembly.322LovePolitics
Mark HelprinThe best way to meet a woman is in an emergency situation - if you're in a shipwreck, or you find yourself behind enemy lines, or in a flood.333Reflection
Mark HelprinShe died on a windy gray day in March when the sky was full of darting crows and the world lay prostrate and defeated after winter. Peter Lake was at her side and it ruined him fo… ▶378DeathReading
Mark HelprinI 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 (2005). A So… ▶346DeathLife
Mark HelprinWhy 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 t… ▶379DeathPoliticsThought
Mark HelprinNot 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 (1983). Winter's Tale, p.291… ▶302Humor
Mark Helprin...this marvelous graceful thing, this joy of physics, this perfect balance between rebellion and obedience, is God's own signature on earth. ✨ Mark Helprin (1983). Winter's… ▶379Death
Mark Helprin'Freeing' a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of American writers to the executives and stockholders of var… ▶3710Thought
Mark HelprinPerhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side, you keep walking, without the need to look back. No shoc… ▶347DeathReflectionSadness
Mark HelprinSuch 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 co… ▶369DeathTruth
Mark HelprinTruth is no rounder than a horse's eye. ✨ Mark Helprin (1983). Winter's Tale, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt3710Truth
Mark HelprinWe launch our souls from the cannons of art and discipline, and on any one night, hovering over the chimney tops of Europe, halfway to the stars, there are armies of brightly spin… ▶271HopeReflection
Mark HelprinRigel, 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 roo… ▶359LifeLove
Mark HelprinJustice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived. ✨ Mark Helprin (1983). Winter's Tale, p.288, Houghton Mifflin … ▶271Politics
Mark HelprinPeter Lake had no illusions about mortality. He knew that it made everyone perfectly equal, and that the treasures of the earth were movement, courage, laughter, and love. The wea… ▶348DeathHumorLove
Mark HelprinYou’ll join me sooner than you know in a place with . . . no illusions, where the truth is the only architecture, the only color, the only sound--where that which we sense merely … ▶272LoveTruth
Mark HelprinThey'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 (1983). Winter's Tale,… ▶327Time
Mark HelprinShe 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 (1983). Winter's Tale, p.23… ▶306Death
Mark HelprinHe 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 (2017). Ellis Island and Other Stories, … ▶317Life
Mark HelprinWell-timed silence is the most commanding expression.274Time
Mark HelprinI have to confess that I have so rarely experienced triumph that I cannot claim to know it well enough to judge, but it seems to be at best a momentary joy followed instantly by s… ▶3310LifeReadingSadness
