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I refuse to buy from anybody anything however nice or beautiful if it interferes with my growth or injures those whom Nature has made my first care.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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
When you close your mouth, you say everything.
— Paul MacAlindin
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
Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.
— Jonathan Raban
In D&D, I love playing the first guy through the door - the guy with the battle-axe. 'Where are the bad guys? Just point me at 'em!'
— Brian Posehn
Now I want to work with Octavia Spencer, because I met her and she's really funny.
— Isabelle Fuhrman
Although surely she realized that space is merely a device to prevent everything from being in the same spot.
— Tom Robbins
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
Quiet is better than loud.
— Dieter Rams
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
But if you don't take the necessary steps to make them happen, dreams are just mirages that mess with your head!
— Chris Gardner
We were sent here just to be kind to each other.
— Debasish Mridha
If you don't know how to look, you'll end up putting down the wrong things, which only dilutes or cancels the power of your artwork.
— George L. Carlson
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
