"Interstate highways dull the reality of place and……" — Jonathan Raban
"Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony."
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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 Distance Quotes
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one of 2,234 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
— Diane Ackerman
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Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
— Richard Bach
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Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone,…
— Emily Greene Balch
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Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous…
— Alan Ball
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
— Ugo Betti
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Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.
— Theodor Adorno
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It's a big thing now: A lot of people want to be assistants to celebrities. If you're pursuing that, you're…
— Lewis Black
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It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
— Aesop
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Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become…
— Bono
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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
— Victor Borge
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