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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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As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
— Antisthenes
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Do not fix hopes on your health, and do not laugh away life. Remember how they walked and now all their joints…
— Al-Ghazali
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Not for a million - years. I mean, I like the INXS boys, but I found the process very degrading, really. Reality…
— Brian May
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Suicide is the means of men whose resilience has been eaten away by rust, the rust of the daily round. They were…
— Unknown Author
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Philosophy can be compared to some powders that are so corrosive that, after they have eaten away the infected flesh of a…
— Pierre Bayle
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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…
— Jonathan Raban
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American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long…
— Pat Conroy
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To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.
— Voltaire
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Lord, protect our decisions, because making Decision is a way of praying. Give us the courage after our doubts, to be able…
— Paulo Coelho
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