Mark Helprin Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: b. June 28, 1947
Birthday: June 28
A lot of people hate heroes. I was criticized for portraying people who are brave, honest, loving, intelligent. That was called weak and sentimental. People who dismiss all real emotion as sentimentality are cowards. They’re afraid to commit themselves, and so they remain ‘cool’ for the rest of their lives, until they’re dead—then they’re really cool.
topic: Hate, Real, Hero, Real Emotion, Sentimentality
