Mark Helprin Quotes
I wrote a great deal of a novel, 'Winter's Tale,' on the roof of a Brooklyn Heights tenement on Henry Street. I was a technical climber, and now and then I would put down my manuscript and get up to walk along parapets and climb walls and chimneys.
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I think we know how to do Mars.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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Each time you take a good picture, you have the wonderful feeling of exhilaration... and almost instantly, the flip side. You have this terrible, terrible anxiety that you've just taken your last good picture.
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Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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The level of dynamism is a matter of how fertile the country is in coming up with innovative ideas having prospects of profitability, how adept it is at identifying and nourishing the ideas with the best prospects, and how prepared it is in evaluating and trying out the new products and methods that are launched onto the market.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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Every actor wants to do a love story, and courtesy T-Series, I got to do two back-to-back.
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Mutual fund managers want your money in their funds. They get paid based on assets under management.
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I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.
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And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me!
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I have enormous respect for people who are gifted mechanics.
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Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.
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If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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I grew up in a family that was always talking about politics.
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We have nothing in our account but zeroes! And yet, because of His great love, God forgave us our astronomical debt.
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Every time I am stuck in traffic, stub my toe, get a middle seat on the flight, I just remember how all of this is just a blip in the radar of my life.
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I wrote a great deal of a novel, 'Winter's Tale,' on the roof of a Brooklyn Heights tenement on Henry Street. I was a technical climber, and now and then I would put down my manuscript and get up to walk along parapets and climb walls and chimneys.
