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When you die, you know, you hear the insistent pounding that defines all things, whether of matter or energy, since there is nothing in the universe, really, but proportion.

Mark Helprin

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Mark Helprin
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 28
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Journalist
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New York City
New York
Energy
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Nothing
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Matter
Proportion
Really
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Dies
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