Quotes by Raban, Jonathan




Jonathan Raban (born 1942) is a British travel writer and novelist. Born in Norfolk, England, he has lived in Seattle, Washington, USA since 1990..


"There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never been an adequate American reason for doing anything. When actions are judged, they go before the bar of God, where Mom and the Flag closely flank His presence."

Raban, Jonathan on motives    Share

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

Raban, Jonathan on rejection    Share

"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, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things."

Raban, Jonathan on travel    Share

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