When New Yorkers tell one about the dangers of their city, the muggings, the dinner parties to which no one turns up… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
My new city [Seattle] and its hinterland felt deceptively homely. Their similar latitude gave them the angular light and lingering evenings I… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
At night, what you see is a city, because all you see is lights. By day, it doesn't look like a city… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Simply as a writer of books I'm thrilled and proud that Seattle should have raised, on a public vote, sufficient money to… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Seattle is not an overly friendly city. It is a civil city, but not altogether friendly. People from outside mistake the civility… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
To the newcomer who has not learned its language, a large city is a chaos of details, a vast Woolworths store of… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
In novels and autobiographies, the first positive move that the immigrant makes towards assimilation is to buy himself a suit of city… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Seattle was built out on pilings over the sea, and at high tide the whole city seemed to come afloat like a… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Democrats inhabit the low shores of Puget Sound, mostly on its eastern side, in a ragged trail of port-cities that stretches from… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
The city has always been an embodiment of hope and a source of feeling guilt; a dream pursued, and found vain, wanting,… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue (in the American, not the British, sense) as deep ultramarine, and… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
In rural areas the majority of the victims of violent crime know their assailants (indeed, are probably married to them); in cities,… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
We need more urgently than architectural utopias, ingenious traffic disposal systems, or ecological programmes to comprehend the nature of citizenship,… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
In the city one clings to nostalgic and unreal signs of community, takes forced refuge in codes, badges and coteries; the city's… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had taken on the dangerous lustre of a promised city. The rumour had gone out… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
All this piling up of one technology on top of another-railroad on steamboat, interstate highway on railroad, hydroelectric dam on watermill-had reduced the Mississippi… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Inaugurals conventionally start with a history lesson and finish with a prayer. — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
When New Yorkers tell one about the dangers of their city, the muggings, the dinner parties to which no one turns up for fear… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
My new city [Seattle] and its hinterland felt deceptively homely. Their similar latitude gave them the angular light and lingering evenings I was used… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
At night, what you see is a city, because all you see is lights. By day, it doesn't look like a city at all.… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Because Washington state now votes by mail, elections here tend to play out, at an agonizingly slow speed, over many days and, sometimes, weeks. — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
The only nation I've ever been tempted to feel really racist about are the Swiss - a whole country of phobic hand washers living… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
The [travel] writer, looking back at the journey from a distance of a year or two (or three), is a different character from the… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
The mythical America?that marvellous, heroic, sentimental landwas an object of faith. It challenged you to make the believer's leap over the rude facts at… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted. — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
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