Famous Quotes by Jonathan Raban

  • Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being... More
  • One classic American landscape haunts all of American literature. It is a picture of Eden,... More
  • Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its... More
  • One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth... More
  • There’s an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has... More
  • Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar... More

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