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Jonathan Raban quotes: Good travel books are novels at heart.

Good travel books are novels at heart.

Jonathan Raban quotes: Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.

Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.

Jonathan Raban quotes: Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.

Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.

Jonathan Raban quotes: No president has come near to rivaling Lincoln as a writer.

No president has come near to rivaling Lincoln as a writer.

Jonathan Raban quotes: Because Washington state now votes by mail, elections here tend to play out, at an agonizingly slow speed, over many days and, sometimes, weeks.

Because Washington state now votes by mail, elections here tend to play out, at an agonizingly slow speed, over many days and, sometimes, weeks.

Jonathan Raban quotes: Trouble defies the law of gravity. It's easier to pick up than to drop.

Trouble defies the law of gravity. It's easier to pick up than to drop.

Jonathan Raban quotes: Inaugurals conventionally start with a history lesson and finish with a prayer.

Inaugurals conventionally start with a history lesson and finish with a prayer.

Jonathan Raban quotes: The city has always been an embodiment of hope and a source of feeling guilt; a dream pursued, and found vain, wanting, and destructive.

The city has always been an embodiment of hope and a source of feeling guilt; a dream pursued, and found vain, wanting, and destructive.

Jonathan Raban quotes: Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony.

Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony.

Jonathan Raban quotes: If we live inside a bad joke, it is up to us to learn, at best and worst, to tell it well.

If we live inside a bad joke, it is up to us to learn, at best and worst, to tell it well.

Jonathan Raban quotes: Seattle is this curious liberal 'island.'

Seattle is this curious liberal 'island.'

Jonathan Raban quotes: The north-south line of 'the mountains,' meaning the Cascade Range, forty miles east of Seattle, is a rigid political frontier.

The north-south line of 'the mountains,' meaning the Cascade Range, forty miles east of Seattle, is a rigid political frontier.

Jonathan Raban quotes: I loved the audacity of that American principle which says. When life gets tainted or goes stale, junk it! Leave it behind! Go West!

I loved the audacity of that American principle which says. When life gets tainted or goes stale, junk it! Leave it behind! Go West!

Jonathan Raban quotes: In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air.

In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air.