He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music.
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Now that music is faithfully reproducible, musicians are not needed as once they were. And music itself has changed. Though small cadres of classicists keep the sacred and ineffable alive, they are under siege by coarse generations whose music is hardly as musical as a bus engine or a chain saw. Something must have occurred during their mothers' pregnancies. How else is it possible to explain that playing Bach keeps them away from public spaces the way iron spikes drive pigeons from cathedral ledges?
Mark Helprin...to be paid for one's joy is to steal.
Mark HelprinAll rivers run full to the sea; those who are apart are brought together; the lost ones are redeemed; the dead come back to life; the perfectly blue days that have begun and ended in golden dimness continue, immobile and accessible; and, when all is perceived in such a way as to obviate time, justice becomes apparent not as something that will be, but something that is.
Mark HelprinThe greatest blizzards start with the finest snow.
Mark HelprinWe are all perfect clocks that the Divinity has set to ticking when, even before birth, the heart explodes into its lifelong dance.
Mark HelprinPerhaps he was a fool, but he thought that if a work were truly great you would only have to read it once and you would be stolen from yourself, desperately moved, changed forever.
Mark HelprinAs it somehow always manages before the winter solstice, but never after, the early darkness was cheerful and promising, even for those who had nothing.
Mark HelprinBreathing, for example, was never taken for granted, since, half the time, thanks to the many chemical works and refineries, it was nearly impossible.
Mark HelprinIn fact, one might make the case that New York would not have shone without its legions of contrary devils polishing the lights of goodness with their inexplicable opposition and resistance.
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