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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 49 quotes by Mark Helprin Mark Helprin (born 28 June 1947) 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". Read full biography of Mark Helprin → 1 2 3 4 Ctrl → The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away... → 0 Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression. 0 New technologies will always demand and deserve careful navigation and difficult readjustments. But the weakening or de facto abolition of copyright... → 0 When people ask me why is 'Winter's Tale' a fantasy, I point out that it is not a fantasy. 0 The 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. 0 I have seen lonely people of advancing age, yet as constant as angels, keeping faith to those they loved who fell in wars that current generations... → 0 The British monarchy has the political and constitutional task of subtracting from the government and governors of Britain the papal and kingly airs... → 0 I was raised on the Hudson, in a house that had been the stable of the financier and Civil War general Brayton Ives. In midcentury, we had fire pits... → 0 Mozart and Neil Diamond may have begun with the same idea, but that a work of art is more than an idea is confirmed by the difference between the... → 0 The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don't have time to... → 0 In American military cemeteries all over the world, seemingly endless rows of whitened grave markers stand largely unvisited and in silence. The... → 0 Reason is a fine thing, but it is not the only thing available to a writer. It's just part of the arsenal of many things available to a... → 0 The craftless anarchy of the Beat poets on the one hand, and the extreme control of Henry James on the other, suggest that for most human beings... → 0 1 2 3 4 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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