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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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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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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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Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the…
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By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had taken on the dangerous lustre of a promised city. The rumour had gone out…
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Seattle was built out on pilings over the sea, and at high tide the whole city seemed to come afloat like a…
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My new city [Seattle] and its hinterland felt deceptively homely. Their similar latitude gave them the angular light and lingering evenings I…
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At night, what you see is a city, because all you see is lights. By day, it doesn't look like a city…
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or…
— Ansel Adams
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Do not be bewildered by the surfaces: in the depths all becomes law.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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What's it like, Lexy? You wake up and you feel - what? Heaviness, an ache inside, a weight, yes. A soft crumpling…
— Carolyn Parkhurst
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I would like to start by emphasizing the importance of surfaces. It is at a surface where many of our most interesting…
— Unknown Author
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This recognition, in real life, of a rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography; composition should…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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A ceiling fixture that places a floating assembly of large pebbles below a simple modern aluminum disc. These in turn reflect each…
— Ross Lovegrove
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If we can make some kind of adjustments, maybe in the game, to make it interesting and slow down the surfaces, then…
— Jana Novotna
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Life just seems so full of connections. Most of the time we don't even pay attention to the depth of life. We…
— Unknown Author
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