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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 25 quotes by Jonathan Raban Jonathan Raban Jonathan Raban, 2013 Born (1942-06-14) 14 June 1942 (age 72) Hempton, Norfolk, UK Nationality British Occupation Writer A 2006 exhibit at the Henry Art Gallery honoring the Stranger Genius Award winners pays tribute to Raban. Jonathan Raban (born 14 June 1942, Hempton, Norfolk, UK) is a British travel writer and novelist. He has received several awards, such as the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Royal Society of... Read full biography of Jonathan Raban → 1 2 Ctrl → At night, what you see is a city, because all you see is lights. By day, it doesn't look like a city at all. The trees out-number the houses. And... → 0 Seattle was built out on pilings over the sea, and at high tide the whole city seemed to come afloat like a ship lifting free from a mud berth and... → 0 Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has... → 0 Heartbreak comes in different sizes, and the departure of an 18-year-old child for a far college has to be treated as a very benign form of the... → 0 'Rage' is the word that most often attaches itself to the Tea Party movement, and it's true that, from the outside looking in, their... → 0 Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony. 0 Every White House has had its intellectuals, but very few presidents have been intellectuals themselves - Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Woodrow... → 0 Because Washington state now votes by mail, elections here tend to play out, at an agonizingly slow speed, over many days and, sometimes, weeks. 0 In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air. 0 Seattle is this curious liberal 'island.' 0 The north-south line of 'the mountains,' meaning the Cascade Range, forty miles east of Seattle, is a rigid political frontier. 0 By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had taken on the dangerous lustre of a promised city. The rumour had gone out that if you had failed in Detroit you... → 0 'Dreams From My Father' reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they're dead. Perhaps more... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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