In the city one clings to nostalgic and unreal signs of community, takes forced refuge in codes, badges and coteries; the city's life, of surfaces and locomotion, usually seems too dangerous and demanding to live through with any confidence.
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 anything … - Jonathan Raban
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 anything …
- Jonathan Raban
Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, … - Jonathan Raban
Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, …
The mythical America?that marvellous, heroic, sentimental landwas an object of faith. It challenged you to make the believer's leap over the rude fac… - Jonathan Raban
The mythical America?that marvellous, heroic, sentimental landwas an object of faith. It challenged you to make the believer's leap over the rude fac…
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 mo… - 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 mo…
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 tha… - Jonathan Raban
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 tha…
Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists i… - Jonathan Raban
Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists i…
Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony. - Jonathan Raban
Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony.
We need more urgently than architectural utopias, ingenious traffic disposal systems, or ecological programmes to comprehend the nature of citize… - Jonathan Raban
We need more urgently than architectural utopias, ingenious traffic disposal systems, or ecological programmes to comprehend the nature of citize…
It always seems to me odd to call a place a wilderness when every wilderness area in the US bristles with rules and regulations as to how you can beh… - Jonathan Raban
It always seems to me odd to call a place a wilderness when every wilderness area in the US bristles with rules and regulations as to how you can beh…
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