Famous Mark Helprin Quotes
In America, Fredericka, they don’t really have trains for people. The trains here are used mainly to transport pigs, television sets, and fruit.– Mark Helprin
Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived.– Mark Helprin
…what argument is left with someone you love if she is willing to break your heart?– Mark Helprin
She felt as if she knew the stars, and had been among them, or would be.– Mark Helprin
For the first time in his life, he felt exactly what he was, and he was not impressed.– Mark Helprin
their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals.– Mark Helprin
A good river is nature’s life work in song.– Mark Helprin
I 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