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> [Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-raban/critics-don-t-talk-to-me-of-critics-you-think-some-jackanapes/)

[Jonathan Raban](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-raban/)

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## More by Jonathan Raban

> [No president has come near to rivaling Lincoln as a writer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-raban/no-president-has-come-near-to-rivaling-lincoln-as-a-writer/)

[Jonathan Raban](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-raban/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-raban/all-this-piling-up-of-one-technology-on-top-of-another-railroad-on/)

[Jonathan Raban](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-raban/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-raban/life-as-the-most-ancient-of-all-metaphors-insists-is-a-journey-and/)

[Jonathan Raban](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-raban/)

> [Inaugurals conventionally start with a history lesson and finish with a prayer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-raban/inaugurals-conventionally-start-with-a-history-lesson-and-finish-with/)

[Jonathan Raban](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-raban/)

> [When New Yorkers tell one about the dangers of their city, the muggings, the dinner parties to which no one turns up for fear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-raban/when-new-yorkers-tell-one-about-the-dangers-of-their-city-the/)

[Jonathan Raban](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-raban/)

> [ My new city \[Seattle\] and its hinterland felt deceptively homely. Their similar latitude gave them the angular light and lingering evenings I was used… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-raban/my-new-city-seattle-and-its-hinterland-felt-deceptively-homely-their/)

[Jonathan Raban](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-raban/)

> [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-raban/at-night-what-you-see-is-a-city-because-all-you-see-is-lights-by-day/)

[Jonathan Raban](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-raban/)

> [Because Washington state now votes by mail, elections here tend to play out, at an agonizingly slow speed, over many days and, sometimes, weeks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-raban/because-washington-state-now-votes-by-mail-elections-here-tend-to/)

[Jonathan Raban](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-raban/)

> [The only nation I've ever been tempted to feel really racist about are the Swiss - a whole country of phobic hand washers living…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-raban/the-only-nation-i-ve-ever-been-tempted-to-feel-really-racist-about/)

[Jonathan Raban](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-raban/)

> [ The \[travel\] writer, looking back at the journey from a distance of a year or two (or three), is a different character from the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-raban/the-travel-writer-looking-back-at-the-journey-from-a-distance-of-a/)

[Jonathan Raban](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-raban/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-raban/the-mythical-america-that-marvellous-heroic-sentimental-landwas-an/)

[Jonathan Raban](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-raban/)

> [Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-raban/over-emphatic-negatives-always-suggest-that-what-is-being-denied-may/)

[Jonathan Raban](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-raban/)

> [Heartbreak comes in different sizes, and the departure of an 18-year-old child for a far college has to be treated as a very benign…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-raban/heartbreak-comes-in-different-sizes-and-the-departure-of-an-18-year/)

[Jonathan Raban](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-raban/)

> [Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was one of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-raban/books-admitted-me-to-their-world-open-handedly-as-people-for-their/)

[Jonathan Raban](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-raban/)

> [One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-raban/one-of-the-oddest-features-of-western-christianized-culture-is-its/)

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