Mark Helprin Quotes

Weeks And Months Are Needed To Accustom Oneself To Climbing. Otherwise, Much Energy Is Lost In Clinging To The Rock, Maintaining Too Sure A Hold, Trying Not To Be Too Stiff, And Worrying. After A While A Climber Warms To The Mountains And Can Accomplish With Little Effort Those Things That Once Took All He Had, For Height Gradually Loses Its Meaning. Standing On The Edge Of A Two-thousand-meter Precipice Becomes No Less Comfortable Than Sitting In A Wicker Chair On Capri, For It Is Possible To Acquire Some Of The Self-possession That Enables Mountain Goats To Stand For Hours On A Tiny Ledge Above An Abyss.

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