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Mark Helprin is an American novelist, journalist, conservative commentator, Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, and Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. While Helprin's fictional works straddle a number of disparate genres and styles, he has stated that he "belongs to no literary school, movement, tendency, or trend". Wikipedia  

✵ 28. June 1947  •  Other names Марк Хелприн
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Works

Winter's Tale
Winter's Tale
Mark Helprin
A Soldier of the Great War
Freddy and Fredericka
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Famous Mark Helprin Quotes

“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

“I'm not afraid," Rafi said.
"Why not?"
"If I die tomorrow it will have been useless to have been afraid today.”

Mark Helprin A Soldier of the Great War

Source: A Soldier of the Great War

“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.”

Mark Helprin book Winter's Tale

Source: Winter's Tale

“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 book Winter's Tale

Source: Winter's Tale

“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 book Winter's Tale

Source: Winter's Tale

“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

Mark Helprin Quotes about beauty

“To 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 other side, if there is another side, is touching them, too.”

Mark Helprin A Soldier of the Great War

Source: A Soldier of the Great War

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

Mark Helprin book Winter's Tale

Source: Winter's Tale

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

Mark Helprin A Soldier of the Great War

Source: A Soldier of the Great War

“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 book Winter's Tale

Source: Winter's Tale

“He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music.”

Mark Helprin book Winter's Tale

Source: Winter's Tale

Mark Helprin Quotes

“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.”

Mark Helprin book Winter's Tale

Source: Winter's Tale

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

Mark Helprin book Winter's Tale

Source: Winter's Tale

“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 book Winter's Tale

Source: Winter's Tale

“Quite possibly there's nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That's when you learn that the tragedy of plants is that they have roots.”

Mark Helprin book Winter's Tale

Source: Winter's Tale

“… to be paid for one's joy is to steal.”

Mark Helprin book Winter's Tale

Source: Winter's Tale

“He hated it as if he were about to love it—unforgivingly, irrationally, sadly.”

Mark Helprin book Winter's Tale

Source: Winter's Tale

“[When] he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy… Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that he likes he gets real happy, turns on the music, and dances by himself, or with a broom sometimes.”

Mark Helprin book Winter's Tale

Source: Winter's Tale

“A good river is nature's life work in song.”

Mark Helprin book Freddy and Fredericka

Source: Freddy and Fredericka

“Never in his life had Alessandro had to squint in starlight, but now the stars were so bright that at times he had to cover his eyes, and when they burned too brilliantly for keeping still, they sometimes shot across the sky in short bursts. Though these quiet illuminations vanished almost as soon as they had started, they lingered in the eye’s inexact memory of their luminescent paths. Perhaps had they been stronger and more constant, and hung in a dull white line, Alessandro’s heart would not have risen each time he saw them. They were less than little puffs of smoke, their tracks thinner than a hair, the bursts of light mainly a matter of memory.”

Mark Helprin

A Soldier of The Great War (1991)

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