"Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set……" — Jonathan Raban
"Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose."
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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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Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and…
— Andrea Bocelli
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The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that…
— Conrad Black
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I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working…
— John Boehner
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My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables.
— John Boehner
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The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
— Edward de Bono
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The girl I find who wants to talk about quantum theory in a bar is the one I want to…
— Brandon Boyd
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When I go to a bar, I don't go looking for a girl who knows the capital of Maine.
— David Brenner
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I'm the type of person who doesn't want to sit alone in a restaurant or bar.
— Malin Akerman
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I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of…
— Jimmy Buffett
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We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.
— Charles Bukowski
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Now one thing I think is really lame, is if you're an artist and you go to a karaoke bar…
— Jason Aldean
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