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Mark Helprin
Mark Helprin
American Novelist
Born: Jun 28, 1947
Because Life Me Work World You
Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach
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
Best Joy Judge Sadness Enough Claim Rarely Followed Triumph Seems Instantly Know Well Well Enough Confess Experienced Cannot Then Momentary Necessity
If it wasn't for music, I would think that love is mortal. Mark Helprin
Love Music Love Is Think Would Mortal
I have jumped out of airplanes but I was not technically a paratrooper. I was an infantryman and a night fighter, anti-terrorist. Mark Helprin
Technically Fighter Airplane Out Infantryman Night
I have been fighting over commas all my life. Mark Helprin
Life My Life Fighting All My Life Over Been Commas
Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression. Mark Helprin
Time Silence Most Well-Timed Commanding Expression
Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would have to be quite cavalier about your children's future. Mark Helprin
Hope Future You Poet Odds Playwright Insane Would About Given Course Up Child Quite Children Your Your Child Grows
I've never had a cup of coffee in my life. I can't even remain in the same room with coffee. Mark Helprin
Life Coffee My Life Remain Never Had Cup Same Room Even
I used to write exclusively with one particular Montblanc fountain pen, although lately I have had to use a roller-tip fountain pen, because I find it harder and harder to control the fine muscles of my right hand during prolonged periods of work. I buy boxes of Deluxe Uni-ball pens, use them until they start to drag, and then change. Mark Helprin
Work Buy Change Control Lately Pen Prolonged Find Pens Fine Write Had Particular Until Periods Although Because Boxes Hand Them Then Use Used Harder Right Fountain Fountain Pen Start Drag Muscles Right Hand
My father was famous for his photographic memory. He was in the OSS. They trained him to be captured on purpose and to read upside down and backwards and commit to memory every document in Germany he saw as he was being interrogated - every schedule on every wall. So, that photographic memory somehow made its way to me when I was young. Mark Helprin
Me Memory Father Backwards Made Young Down Every Saw Way Photographic Somehow Purpose Schedule He Document Him Read His Germany Trained Wall Commit Being Famous Upside Upside Down Captured
I was raised on the Hudson, in a house that had been the stable of the financier and Civil War general Brayton Ives. In midcentury, we had fire pits in the floor for heating, and rats everywhere, because they nested in the hay insulation. Mark Helprin
War Fire Everywhere Financier Civil Civil War General Rats Hay Had House Because Been Hudson Heating Stable Pits Floor Raised
Barnes & Noble is able to publish price-reduced non-copyrighted works not so much because it saves the 10 percent to 15 percent of revenue that would go to the gruel-eating authors, but because it saves the 50 percent that would go to the publishers. Mark Helprin
Publish Saves Would Able Percent Noble Because Revenue Go Authors Much Works Publishers
'Freeing' a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of American writers to the executives and stockholders of various businesses who will continue to profit from, for example, 'The Garden Party,' while the descendants of Katherine Mansfield will not. Mark Helprin
Work Garden Wealth Will Example Party Profit Benefit Various Writers Freeing For Example Executives Continue Domain Families Than American Literary Transfer Literary Work While Public Public Domain Less Who Businesses Katherine Descendants American Writers
No good case exists for the inequality of real and intellectual property, because no good case can exist for treating with special disfavor the work of the spirit and the mind. Mark Helprin
Work Good Property Mind Spirit Case Because Inequality Real Exist Intellectual Exists Intellectual Property Special Treating
Of course, everyone in the New World is an immigrant or a descendant of immigrants, and immigrants have built America and continue to do so. Legal or illegal, they are almost universally good people who work to better their lot and that of their children. Mark Helprin
Work Good Legal People World Better Good People Everyone Immigrant Immigrants Almost New Course Built Continue Lot America New World Children Illegal Who Descendant Universally
I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary. Mark Helprin
Work You Money Books Idea Make Sort Selling Literary Your
I don't aspire at present to be king of the hill in American literature. Mark Helprin
King Hill American Literature American Literature Aspire Present
The trick in nuclear strategy is to maintain stability by balancing potentials and thus to discourage events from converting the hypothetical to the actual. Mark Helprin
Events Strategy Trick Hypothetical Maintain Thus Balancing Discourage Stability Converting Actual Nuclear
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
Best You Woman Yourself Enemy Situation Meet Way Find Best Way Emergency Lines Shipwreck Behind Flood
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. Mark Helprin
Government Political President Adhere Constitutional Institution Because Governors Task America Unfortunately Monarchy Britain British
As much as I love art, there is no art as fine as the world we have been given. Mark Helprin
Love Art World Fine Given Been Much
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
You Age Parents Argument Defense Defensive Honorable Considered Say Born Children Meaning Thing
When people ask me why is 'Winter's Tale' a fantasy, I point out that it is not a fantasy. Mark Helprin
Me Winter People Out Point Tale Fantasy Ask Why

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