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Book: Winter's Tale
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Mark Helprin _ Winter's Tale
They come down here for their own benefit. It's as clear as day that they love it. The great irony and perfect joke is that the wretches on the bottom of the barrel get these self-serving scum as champions. Some champions! They feed off the poor-first materially, and then in spirit. But they deserve each other in a way, because vice and stupidity were made to go together. "I know that, you see, because I was poor. But I rose like a rocket, and I know how the whole thing works. The ones who are always on your side, or so they think, are the ones who keep you down. Everything they do keeps you down. They'll forgive you for anything. Rob, rape, pillage, and kill, and they'll defend you to yourself. They understand all outrages, and all your failings and faults, too. Perfect! You can go on that way forever. What do they care? Excuse me: they do care. They want it that way.
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Mark Helprin _ Winter's Tale
Nothing is predetermined, it is determined, or was determined, or will be determined. No matter, it all happened at once, in less than an instant, and time was invented because we cannot comprehend in one glance the enormous and detailed canvas that we have been given - so we track it, in linear fashion piece by piece. Time however can be easily overcome; not by chasing the light, but by standing back far enough to see it all at once. The universe is still and complete. Everything that ever was is; everything that ever will be is - and so on, in all possible combinations.
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Mark Helprin _ Winter's Tale
Craig Binky siedział w widocznym miejscu i to, co nastąpiło w tej chwili, nie umknęło uwadze ani jednej osoby. Złapał się za pierś i brew, jakby dostał zawału i udaru jednocześnie, po czym zaczął się krzywić, wykonując serię min, których ekspresja zawstydziłaby prawdziwego mima.
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Mark Helprin _ Winter's Tale
A benevolent act is like a locust: it sleeps until it is called.
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Mark Helprin _ Winter's Tale
Zrobimy to, co zawsze robię w takich sytuacjach, co robiłem już sto razy, co automatycznie robi każdy, kto naprawdę zna góry. – To znaczy? – Katapultę.
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Mark Helprin _ Winter's Tale
Najbardziej zafrapowało ją to, w jaki sposób miasto się porusza. Z oddali wszystkie jego ruchome elementy wydawały się podlegać jednemu prawu, niewidocznemu dla żadnego z osobna. Rzecznymi statkami poruszał mocny kontrapunkt, mocny jak magnetyczna siła, wyczuwało się go tak wyraźnie, jak widziało się ich sylwetki. Ich zawiłe kursy były jak niewidzialne nici.
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Mark Helprin _ Winter's Tale
Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that he likes he gets real happy, turns on the music, and dances by himself, or with a broom sometimes. Mum's the word." "I suppose it's because his wife's dead," said Christiana, "that he dances with a broom." "I don't think so," said Boonya. "He dances with a mop, too." "Maybe he had a mistress." "He did, but she had short hairs. I also got short-haired mops.
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Mark Helprin _ Winter's Tale
Magnetyzm barw zmuszał go do kradzenia obrazów.
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Mark Helprin _ Winter's Tale
What's the difference what you watch?" Praeger shot back. "When that stream of hypnotic electrons starts winging into your brain, you're finished, good-as-gone, condemned to hell. No matter what it is, if you don't move your eyes and set the pace yourself, your intellect is sentenced to death. The mind, you see, is like a muscle. For it to remain agile and strong, it must work.
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Mark Helprin _ Winter's Tale
Evidently, rigging cables is therapy for the Swiss: or part of their theology. What was it that he used to say? A balanced arc between mountain rows / as servant to his master shows / the power of besieged belief / in something something something, something something something-something to do with ducks, or rainbows.
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Mark Helprin _ Winter's Tale
Mr. de Pinto, the dog who protects sheep quickly learns how to direct them, and it becomes a habit. The people have been trained by their 'watchmen' to jump, and to trample what the 'watchmen' want trampled."I have found, that those who would guard the people are their governors. The government admits that it is a government. The press pretends that it is not. But what a pretense! You orchestrate entire populations. And who elected you? No one. You are self-appointed, you speak for no one, and therefore you have no right to question me as if you represent the common good.
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Mark Helprin _ Winter's Tale
Isn't Mr. Cecil Wooley the fattest, slittiest-eyed thing you've ever seen? And don't you suppose that being called Reverend Doctor Mootfowl is not a common phenomenon, and never has been?
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