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Jonathan Raban Quotes
In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air.
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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.
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Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.
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