Mark Helprin Quote

I don't know for sure, he said, but I can't imagine that God, who is so adept at linking parents with children, would so cruelly separate them. Perhaps it isn't anywhere near the truth. Perhaps I'm merely self-serving. I don't know, but I believe against all odds in exactly what you say. You don't care what anyone else thinks, do you? No, Papa. I never did. That can only be because you believe. Yes. And how does God speak to you? In the language of everything that is beautiful.

Mark Helprin

I don't know for sure, he said, but I can't imagine that God, who is so adept at linking parents with children, would so cruelly separate them. Perhaps it isn't anywhere near the truth. Perhaps I'm merely self-serving. I don't know, but I believe against all odds in exactly what you say. You don't care what anyone else thinks, do you? No, Papa. I never did. That can only be because you believe. Yes. And how does God speak to you? In the language of everything that is beautiful.

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About Mark Helprin

Mark Helprin (born June 28, 1947) is an American-Israeli novelist, journalist, conservative commentator, Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, and Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. While Helprin's fictional works straddle a number of disparate genres and styles, he has stated that he "belongs to no literary school, movement, tendency, or trend".