Mark Helprin Quotes about Country

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It was a good speech, but the reaction was due to the fact that politics are madness, and even if one does not know it, a country in electoral season experiences flares of lunacy like the great storms that sometimes

It was a good speech, but the reaction was due to the fact that politics are madness, and even if one does not know it, a country in electoral season experiences flares of lunacy like the great storms that sometimes march across the golden surface of the sun.

Mark Helprin

Country, Storm, Speech

Mark Helprin (2005). “Freddy and Fredericka”, p.313, Penguin

Winter then in its early and clear stages, was a purifying engine that ran unhindered over city and country, alerting the stars to sparkle violently and shower their silver light into the arms of bare upreaching trees. It was a mad and beautiful thing that scoured raw the souls of animals and man, driving them before it until they loved to run. And what it did to Northern forests can hardly be described, considering that it iced the branches of the sycamores on Chrystie Street and swept them back and forth until they rang like ranks of bells.

Mark Helprin

Love, Beautiful, Country

Mark Helprin (2014). “A New York Winter's Tale”, p.227, Pan Macmillan

Every sovereign country has the right to control its borders, and should. The idea that anyone would sneak over our borders without proper documentation to me is absolutely abhorrent.

Mark Helprin

Country, Ideas, Sovereign

Source: americasfuture.org

Quite possibly there's nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That's when you learn that the tragedy of plants is that they have roots.

Mark Helprin

Summer, Country, Travel

Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.290, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Mark Helprin Quotes about Country

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