"Travel. It was an intransitive verb. It didn't……" — Jonathan Raban
"Travel. It was an intransitive verb. It didn't involve any destinations. It was going to the going's sake, to be anywhere but where you were, with motion itself as the only object."
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Jonathan Raban
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45 Quotes by Jonathan Raban
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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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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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To the newcomer who has not learned its language, a large city is a chaos of details, a vast Woolworths…
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