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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 → ← Ctrl 1 2 It's been so long since a talented writer last occupied the White House; no wonder, then, that American writers have been among the most... → 0 Simply as a writer of books I'm thrilled and proud that Seattle should have raised, on a public vote, sufficient money to build a central... → 0 The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison with Obama's 'Dreams From My Father' is Jimmy Carter's short... → 0 When I want an opinion, I'll get it from my peers - from men of vision, like our great railroad builders... Stanford, Huntington, Dinsmore...... → 0 Inaugurals conventionally start with a history lesson and finish with a prayer. 0 Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose. 0 No president has come near to rivaling Lincoln as a writer. 0 Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted. 0 Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue (in the American, not the British, sense) as deep ultramarine, and its manners are... → 0 The trouble with ghostwriting is that it raises the issue of whether the president is in a state of diminished responsibility for what he says. Does... → 0 Democrats inhabit the low shores of Puget Sound, mostly on its eastern side, in a ragged trail of port-cities that stretches from Bellingham, close... → 0 I've taught the better class of tourist both to see and not to see; to lift their eyes above and beyond the inessentials, and thrill to our... → 0 ← Ctrl 1 2 Add a quote!


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