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For the first time in his life, he felt exactly what he was, and he was not impressed.

For the first time in his life, he felt exactly what he was, and he was not impressed.
– Mark Helprin

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  1. He 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
  2. She felt as if she knew the stars, and had been among them, or would be. – Mark Helprin
  3. 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
  4. A good river is nature’s life work in song. – Mark Helprin
  5. When faced with something I fear, I tend to eat spaghetti. – Mark Helprin
  6. Small scenes can be so beautiful that they change a man forever. – Mark Helprin
  7. Physical features count little unless they are illumined from within. – Mark Helprin
  8. Read what you find interesting, and then follow your interests. You’ll find that in doing so you always generate enough to illuminate the next step. – Mark Helprin
  9. 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
  10. …what argument is left with someone you love if she is willing to break your heart? – Mark Helprin
  11. Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived. – Mark Helprin
  12. 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
  13. Well, don’t expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear. – Suzanne Collins
  14. It felt dangerous. It felt amazing. It felt like of course the lights were out, because all the electricity in the city was in my veins. – Maggie Hall
  15. Love in your mind can be felt by some, love in your heart can be felt by many, but love in your soul can be felt by all. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  16. She felt damned. As though she were marching to her death. She felt like had been sentenced. And yet she felt eerily free. – Tan Redding
  17. being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right. – Charles Bukowski
  18. It felt terrific. It felt deeper and richer than laughter. It felt like opening a door and tumbling headfirst into a pile of feathers. – Leslea Tash
  19. If you don’t know exactly where you are going (and why),that is exactly where you will end up. – Christopher Babson
  20. If you don’t know exactly what you want, that is exactly what you will get. – Christopher Babson
  21. All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. ~ on the friends we choose. – Dave Eggers
  22. Not being impressed by anyone or anything is one of the surest paths to a life of mediocrity. – Wayne Gerard Trotman
  23. Jolly felt salty tears on her lips, and for the first time in her life it occurred to her that sorrow tasted exactly like the sea. – Kai Meyer
  24. Give everyone room to mess up so that when they do you won’t be disappointed and if they don’t you’ll be impressed. – TemitOpe Ibrahim
  25. How can you tell? That I like books, I mean.The look on your face when you walked in, somehow I doubted you were that impressed by me. – Cassandra Clare
  26. from Bill Clinton speech- People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power… – Bill Clinton
  27. Take control from the moment you step in her place. She’ll be pleasantly surprised and impressed. – Auliq Ice
  28. I almost moved mountains, touched rivers, impressed deserts and motivated skies, but I never made it to your heart. – MF Moonzajer
  29. Whatever you think again and again affects your feelings and is impressed upon subconscious mind and becomes a part of your personality. – Hina Hashmi
  30. God produced great writing, a matter of first importance to a man like Lincoln, ever impressed with the nature of cause and forces. – Richard Brookhiser
  31. I’m impressed when men go the distance to show they give a damn. That says nothing about the woman and everything about the man. – Donna Lynn Hope
  32. Would you rather have people be impressed by who you are or respect who you’ve become? – Paula Sours
  33. Repeatedly I have been impressed to learn that to reach a goal never before attained, one must do things never before done. – Richard G Scott
  34. I must say, cowboy, I’m impressed. I was worried you could only handle eight seconds at a time. – Joya Ryan
  35. She was impressed by its simplicity and its seriousness, and the rage she had cultivated with so much love for so many days faded away on the spot. – Gabriel Garca Mrquez
  36. …am so deeply impressed with the fair mindedness and tolerance of the American people… – Virchand Gandhi
  37. I am often impressed with those that admit their ignorance, for it is the first step towards breaking out of the prison called freedom. – Lionel Suggs
  38. In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents. – Beryl Markham
  39. I point out. It was the most foolish, jape-fisted bit of buffoonery I have ever seen, and I am impressed in spite of that. – Robin LaFevers
  40. If mankind’s greatest achievement is to produce more spaces for mankind to live in, I do not think I am so impressed. – Sharon Shinn

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