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Mark Helprin

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 storyteller. Revelation, for example.

– Mark Helprin

Mark Helprin

In the Freudian age, parents say to their children, ‘Don’t be defensive,’ meaning, ‘You have no argument,’ but I was born in the age of Rommel, when defense was considered an honorable thing.

– Mark Helprin

Mark Helprin

As much as I love art, there is no art as fine as the world we have been given.

– Mark Helprin

Mark Helprin

You will most appreciate ‘Freddy and Fredericka’ if you are familiar with the story of the Fall, the Good Hermit, ‘Tom Jones,’ ‘Huckleberry Finn,’ ‘Paradise Lost,’ ‘Henry V,’ and ‘My Cousin Vinny.’ That doesn’t mean that you can’t enjoy or understand it on an emotional level, free of all allusion, which is the test of any book of fiction.

– Mark Helprin

Mark Helprin

The British monarchy has the political and constitutional task of subtracting from the government and governors of Britain the papal and kingly airs that in America, because we have no such institution, unfortunately adhere to the president.

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Mark Helprin

If Shakespeare thought comedy worthwhile, that means the rest of us can take a break from tragedy now and then without betraying our calling, even if the modern professional intellectual, a poseur by nature, has yet to discover this.

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Mark Helprin

The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don’t have time to study how the world works. And if you have no understanding of economics, strategy, history and politics, then naturally you would be a liberal.

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Mark Helprin

One of the things I worked very hard on all my life was to be like everyone else. I tried very hard to fit in.

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Mark Helprin

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.

– Mark Helprin

Mark Helprin

Creative Commons’ is the self-congratulatory name of a self-congratulatory movement. Somewhat like kibbutz on the Internet, the idea is to write programs – ‘free ware’ – and distribute them without charge.

– Mark Helprin

Mark Helprin

I have been fighting over commas all my life.

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Mark Helprin

I have to confess that I have so rarely experienced triumph that I cannot claim to know it well enough to judge, but it seems to be at best a momentary joy followed instantly by sadness, and, then, of necessity, by wariness.

– Mark Helprin

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