"The north-south line of 'the mountains,' meaning the……" — Jonathan Raban
"The north-south line of 'the mountains,' meaning the Cascade Range, forty miles east of Seattle, is a rigid political frontier."
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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 Cascade Quotes
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one of 34 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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In order to make a perfect and beautiful machine, it is not requisite to know how to make it. All…
— Daniel Dennett
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One by one, these governments came undone, and were forced into IMF tutelage (and national illegitimacy) by the careening oil…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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It's gotten to the point where if I throw a cookie in the garbage, I have to douse it in…
— Hoda Kotb
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I expect to retire to a fine-grained heaven where the temperatures are always consistent, where the images slide before one's…
— Ansel Adams
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The TARP program was nevertheless necessary to keep banks from collapsing in a cascade of failures.
— Mitt Romney
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I raised my right hand and placed my left on the Quran, which was being held by my wife and…
— Keith Ellison
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Sit back picture yourself swooping up a shell of purple with foam crests of crystal drops soft nigh they fall…
— Robert Hunter
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I've experienced first-hand the wonderful work organizations like J Bar J do for young people in Central Oregon and I…
— Greg Walden
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When all is complete deep in the teapot, when tea, mint, and sugar have completely diffused throughout the water, coloring…
— Unknown Author
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Once the cells in a biological machine stop working, it can never be started again. It goes into a cascade…
— Richard Preston
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Holi, the spring carnival, when members of all castes mingle and let down their hair, sprinkling one another with cascades…
— Wendy Doniger
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When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
— Queen Rania of Jordan
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