"Heartbreak comes in different sizes, and the departure……" — 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 form of the disease."
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45 Quotes by Jonathan Raban
Jonathan Raban has 45 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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I loved the audacity of that American principle which says. When life gets tainted or goes stale, junk it! Leave…
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In the city one clings to nostalgic and unreal signs of community, takes forced refuge in codes, badges and coteries;…
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In rural areas the majority of the victims of violent crime know their assailants (indeed, are probably married to them);…
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The city has always been an embodiment of hope and a source of feeling guilt; a dream pursued, and found…
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More Benign Quotes
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one of 121 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.
— Nan Fairbrother
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The president feels not only do we need to change these rogue regimes, but even our friendly allies, who really…
— Mitch McConnell
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When enough Americans realize how rotten are the fruits of our policy of 'benign neglect,' how costly our prejudice is…
— John Howard Griffin
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To be a flamboyant failure, that's better than being any kind of benign success
— Malcolm Mclaren
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the universe is under the control of a loving purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In…
— Marilyn Ferguson
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Acid wasn't getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing…
— Tommy Rettig
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I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be…
— Kyle MacLachlan
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Some stalkers are quite benign, but finding someone in your garden at three o’clock in the morning with a meat…
— Daniel Craig
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I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a…
— Maggie Smith
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New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once…
— Alec Baldwin
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The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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