"Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is……" — Jonathan Raban
"Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted."
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45 Quotes by Jonathan Raban
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- Spells of acute loneliness are an essential part of travel. Loneliness makes things happen.
- Travel. It was an intransitive verb. It didn't involve any destinations. It was going to the going's sake, to be…
- Seattle is this curious liberal island.
- Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue (in the American, not the British, sense) as deep…
- I loved the audacity of that American principle which says. When life gets tainted or goes stale, junk it! Leave…
- In the city one clings to nostalgic and unreal signs of community, takes forced refuge in codes, badges and coteries;…
- In rural areas the majority of the victims of violent crime know their assailants (indeed, are probably married to them);…
- The city has always been an embodiment of hope and a source of feeling guilt; a dream pursued, and found…
- To the newcomer who has not learned its language, a large city is a chaos of details, a vast Woolworths…
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