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It was easy to be clever, but hard to look into the face of God, who is found not so much by cleverness as by stillness.

Mark Helprin

It was easy to be clever, but hard to look into the face of God, who is found not so much by cleverness as by stillness.

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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".