"Seattle was built out on pilings over the sea, and at high tide the whole city seemed to come afloat like a ship lifting free from a mud berth and swaying in its chains."

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Source : Jonathan Raban (2017). “Driving Home: An American Scrapbook”, p.16, Pan Macmillan

Jonathan Raban

#Sea Quotes #Cities Quotes #Mud Quotes

“Books were in the world; the world was in books.”
“By March, 70 percent of women would be employed.”
“In my heart and soul, I always knew that I wanted to be in show business.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Sometimes, I think I could have been a major movie star with the vast mansion and staff. I look at my Volvo and think it could be a limousine. I think of the roles I turned down. But then I wouldn't have had any children.”
“You are what you repeatedly do when things get hard.”
“I don't like Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy.”
“I don't mind hidden depths but I insist that there be a surface.”

Source : Livejournal post, 2005.
“I think everybody at some point - especially if they've been working their whole lives - should take time out and think about what they've done.”

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