Famous Quotes / Jonathan Raban
6 Quotations by Jonathan Raban
- 1. In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air.
- 2. Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its decept ...
- 3. Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar re ...
- 4. One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of t ...
- 5. Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserte ...
- 6. There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never ...