Mark Helprin Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: b. June 28, 1947
Birthday: June 28
How the holy and the profane mix in the light of day and at the end of life is sometimes the most beautiful thing in this world and a compassionate entry into the next. After failure and defeat, a concentration upon certain beauties, though forever lost and unretrievable, can lift the wounded past roundedness and the dying past dying, protecting them with an image, still and bright, that will ride with them on their long ride, never to fade and never to retreat.
topic: Beautiful, Past, Light, Profane
