"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

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“As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.”

Source : John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”
“There are personalities so powerful that they leave their stamp on any place they inhabit. Their presence is always there, like a spoor, whether or not they themselves are.”
“There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.”
“A Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today”
“I come from a very big family... nine parents.”
“I feel that we have come a long way as American people, and we have to start looking at ourselves as human beings.”
“The major labels, they roll with whatever is making money. I don't know if R&B turned into making banjo music and it sounded like blue grass, they'll buy it if it's selling.”
“When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.”

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