"In novels and autobiographies, the first positive move……" — Jonathan Raban
"In novels and autobiographies, the first positive move that the immigrant makes towards assimilation is to buy himself a suit of city clothes."
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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 Assimilation Quotes
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one of 55 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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We should be proud that so many want to come to America, that it is still seen as the land…
— Rand Paul
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Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture.…
— Thomas Kuhn
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Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Not as common bread or as common drink do we receive these.....We have been taught that the food that has…
— Justin Martyr
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If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can…
— Allan W. Eckert
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Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.
— Constantin Stanislavski
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The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
— William McKinley
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Yes I know my enemies. They're the teachers who taught me to fight me, compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy,…
— Zack de la Rocha
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Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.
— Jean Piaget
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The ironic life is a life keenly alert, keenly sensitive, reacting promptly with feelings of liking or dislike to each…
— Randolph Bourne
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Finally it should be the earnest wish and paramount aim of the military administration to win the confidence, respect, and…
— William McKinley
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But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn't really a…
— Samuel P. Huntington
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