Quotes by Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale

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He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable becaus — Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
The beauty of truth is that it need not be proclaimed or believed. It skips from soul to soul, changing form each time i — Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
[When] he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy...Don't tell anyone, but when — Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
No one ever said that you would live to see the repercussions of everything you do, or that you have guarantees, or that — Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they — Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
Small scenes can be so beautiful that they change a man forever. — Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
Physical features count little unless they are illumined from within. — Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
Then the bow orchestra began to play an apocalyptically beautiful canon, one of those pieces in which, surely, the compo — Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
No matter what it is, if you don’t move your eyes and set the pace yourself, your intellect is sentenced to death. The m — Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
Adversity has its compensations, that in falling, and in failing, we rise. It is as if there is a hand behind us that se — Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and en — Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
Why do people resist [engines, bridges, and cities] so? They are symbols and products of the imagination, which is the f — Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
Quite possibly there's nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. — Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funny, the intensity and — Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
There is justice in the world, Peter Lake, but it cannot be had without mystery. — Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
For the first time in his life, he felt exactly what he was, and he was not impressed. — Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
She felt as if she knew the stars, and had been among them, or would be. — Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
Mr. de Pinto, the dog who protects sheep quickly learns how to direct them, and it becomes a habit. The people have been — Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
Justice can sleep for years and awaken when it is least expected. A miracle is nothing more than dormant justice from an — Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
I see no justice in that plan.""Who said," lashed out Isaac Penn, "that you, a man, can always perceive justice? Who sai — Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale