Mark Helprin quote
February 14, 2016 8:37 PM Subscribe
Looking for a Mark Helprin quote, maybe from Winter's Tale: something like 'we are all boats in a harbour, sometimes we float together and sometimes we're pulled apart'.
Google has not helped. AskMetafilter I beseech your aid!
Response by poster: No, it was definitely very close to the one I posted - I just want to get it right since it's going in a published document.
Beautiful quote though, thanks!
posted by Sebmojo at 8:42 PM on February 14, 2016
Beautiful quote though, thanks!
posted by Sebmojo at 8:42 PM on February 14, 2016
Google Books lets you search within certain books. Searching "harbor" in Winter's Tale didn't turn up any quotes like the one you're looking for, though.
Maybe it's a different book, or maybe the quotation doesn't contain the word harbor.
posted by Sleeper at 11:36 PM on February 14, 2016
Maybe it's a different book, or maybe the quotation doesn't contain the word harbor.
posted by Sleeper at 11:36 PM on February 14, 2016
This has been driving me nuts all day. I searched the ebooks of Winter's Tale and In Sunlight and in Shadow for "boats," and "harbor," and "float," and didn't find anything that looked right.
I did find this quotation on Google Books, from an 1882 book called "Our sketching tour":
posted by teditrix at 8:02 PM on February 15, 2016
I did find this quotation on Google Books, from an 1882 book called "Our sketching tour":
[...] It is just like the world," she continued meditatively, "and we are like the leaves floating on the stream, quite powerless, carried away by circumstances. Sometimes we float together a long time happily, and then a wave or an eddy washes us apart, just as it brought us together, and we never meet again."Good luck!
posted by teditrix at 8:02 PM on February 15, 2016
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(WInter's Tale)
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posted by parki at 8:41 PM on February 14, 2016 [1 favorite]