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Freddy and Fredericka QUOTES

Freddy and Fredericka QUOTES

1 " I read. The more you read, the more the world opens up to you... and the happier you are and more comforted you feel. It's up to you. No you is educated who cannot educate himself. "

― Mark Helprin , Freddy and Fredericka

2 " Read what you find interesting, and then follow your interests. You'll find that in doing so you always generate enough to illuminate the next step. "

― Mark Helprin , Freddy and Fredericka

3 " Nobody steals books except kleptomaniacs and university students. In most places you can leave a book on the street and come back for in the next day. "

― Mark Helprin , Freddy and Fredericka

4 " A good river is nature's life work in song. "

― Mark Helprin , Freddy and Fredericka

5 " We are like poor people, who have nothing but each other, and are happy. "

― Mark Helprin , Freddy and Fredericka

6 " In America, Fredericka, they don't really have trains for people. The trains here are used mainly to transport pigs, television sets, and fruit. "

― Mark Helprin , Freddy and Fredericka

7 " I was brought up,' Freddy informed him, 'not to suffer anxiety about decisive initiative of all types. "

― Mark Helprin , Freddy and Fredericka

8 " I've given myself to you. You may have my body, soul, everything. Time passes, and all I want is the intimacy that slows, defeats. and confounds it. Love, that's what it is. You've always made the mistake that men often make, and carried forward the great fault that mars civilisation, which is that you believe that your philosophy is deeper than love. "

― Mark Helprin , Freddy and Fredericka

9 " It was a good speech, but the reaction was due to the fact that politics are madness, and even if one does not know it, a country in electoral season experiences flares of lunacy like the great storms that sometimes march across the golden surface of the sun. "

― Mark Helprin , Freddy and Fredericka

10 " Just the two of us. We're in it together. The pleasure will be ours alone. For the rest of our lives. "

― Mark Helprin , Freddy and Fredericka

11 " It is said that marriage is a long war between ancient families trapped in close proximity by lust. "

― Mark Helprin , Freddy and Fredericka

12 " Potatoes have much more staying power than caviar. "

― Mark Helprin , Freddy and Fredericka

13 " And I love you.' she said her heart buoyant. She really did love him, although each time she said it and he could not reply, she loved him perhaps a little less. "

― Mark Helprin , Freddy and Fredericka

14 " If you don't have compassion you won't be compelled to help. "

― Mark Helprin , Freddy and Fredericka

15 " When finally the sky grew ink-black, the trees were visible only as their swaying branches blotted out the stars that crossed in blazing showers, as sometimes they do. The language of the stars, seldom read and heeded less, told beautifully and in silence of all the victories that had ever been won and all the defeats ever suffered. In uncountable lines of light across the widest sphere, the stars spoke of everything notable even down to a leaf blowing rhythmically in the wind. "

― Mark Helprin , Freddy and Fredericka

16 " People in my constituency are starving and born with sixteen fingers. Did you ever eat weasel shish-kebob? Freddy doesn’t walk by the side of the motorways to gather dandelions for his salad, but the people who sent me here do. Why are we supporting him? He doesn’t deserve it. The Tories won’t give milk to children who go to school hungry and come home to baked cat. "

― Mark Helprin , Freddy and Fredericka

17 " Disdain is only as intense as similarity. "

― Mark Helprin , Freddy and Fredericka

18 " Isn't it better to think nothing than to think something that is completely idiotic? "

― Mark Helprin , Freddy and Fredericka

19 " What a place to put a city, right on the front line of absolute zero. No wonder a cow burned it down. "

― Mark Helprin , Freddy and Fredericka

20 " Better a bird in hand than hell knows what in the bush. "

― Mark Helprin , Freddy and Fredericka