Donald Harington famous quotes

Stay More' is synonymous with 'Status Quo' in fact, there are people who believe, or who like to believe, that the name of the town was intended as an entreaty, beseeching the past to remain present.
-- Donald Harington

#Believe #Past #Names

If you are destined to become a writer, you can't help it. If you can help it, you aren't destined to become a writer. The frustrations and disappointments, not even to mention the unspeakable loneliness, are too unbearable for anyone who doesn't have a deep sense of being unable to avoid writing.
-- Donald Harington

#Disappointment #Loneliness #Writing

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.
-- Donald Harington

#Life #World #Way

Words themselves are all the ghosts we need.
-- Donald Harington

#Needs #Ghost

The Society of North American Magic Realists welcomes its newest, most dazzling member, Louis Maistros. His debut novel is a thing of wonder, unlike anything in our literature. It startles. It stuns. It stupefies. No novel since CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES has done such justice to New Orleans. If Franz Kafka had been able to write like Peter Straub, this might have been the result.
-- Donald Harington

#Writing #New Orleans #Justice

If you can help it, you aren’t destined to become a writer.
-- Donald Harington

#Helping

If you can help it, you aren’t destined to become a writer.
-- Donald Harington

#Helping #Destined #Ifs

I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true

Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.

You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.

Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is

In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.

It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.

I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.

Zionism is nothing more, but also nothing less, than the Jewish People's sense of origin and destination in the Land linked eternally with its name. It is also the instrument whereby the Jewish Nation seeks an authentic fulfillment of itself.

In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.

Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.