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Jonathan Raban has 45 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I ain't sleeping. I'm just taking a good look at the insides of my eyelids.
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Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.
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In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air.
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Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was…
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Spells of acute loneliness are an essential part of travel. Loneliness makes things happen.
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Travel. It was an intransitive verb. It didn't involve any destinations. It was going to the going's sake, to be anywhere but…
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Seattle is this curious liberal island.
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Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue (in the American, not the British, sense) as deep ultramarine, and…
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I loved the audacity of that American principle which says. When life gets tainted or goes stale, junk it! Leave it behind!…
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In the city one clings to nostalgic and unreal signs of community, takes forced refuge in codes, badges and coteries; the city's…
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In rural areas the majority of the victims of violent crime know their assailants (indeed, are probably married to them); in cities,…
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The city has always been an embodiment of hope and a source of feeling guilt; a dream pursued, and found vain, wanting,…
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I'm not a functional person because I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties but…
— Fiona Apple
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You can imagine the kind of dinner parties I had to go to at a young age... pretty dull.
— Prince Harry
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At dinner parties I sit below the salt now. There are a lot of interesting people there.
— Donald T. Regan
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The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.
— Carol Grace
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When New Yorkers tell one about the dangers of their city, the muggings, the dinner parties to which no one turns up…
— Jonathan Raban
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I really like to cook and have dinner parties and I like to clean, it really clears my head and it makes…
— Jenny Slate
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I'm an avid cook. Brazilian, some Italian, a little French. And I often throw dinner parties.
— Morena Baccarin
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Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.
— Boris Johnson
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Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight…
— Sally Quinn
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I still have the shirt I wore my first time on Johnny Carson's show. Only now I use it as a tablecloth…
— Ellen DeGeneres
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I don't have dinner parties - I eat my dinner in bed.
— Hugh Hefner
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It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were…
— Damian Lewis
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