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Oh, don't be a spoilsport. Gossip is sexy. Gossip is good. Not everybody does it, but everybody should!
— Cecily Von Ziegesar
When one sees a perfect woman, one never thinks of her attributes
one is conscious of her presence. — George Eliot
one is conscious of her presence. — George Eliot
Good travel books are novels at heart.
— Jonathan Raban
Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.
— Jonathan Raban
So long as some are strong and some are weak, the weak will be driven to the wall.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony.
— Jonathan Raban
In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air.
— Jonathan Raban
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
The north-south line of 'the mountains,' meaning the Cascade Range, forty miles east of Seattle, is a rigid political frontier.
— Jonathan Raban
Seattle is this curious liberal 'island.'
— Jonathan Raban
If we live inside a bad joke, it is up to us to learn, at best and worst, to tell it well.
— Jonathan Raban
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
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
No president has come near to rivaling Lincoln as a writer.
— Jonathan Raban
All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man.
— Edward R. Murrow