"I've taught the better class of tourist both to see and not to see; to lift their eyes above and beyond the inessentials, and thrill to our western Nature in her majesty."

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Source : "Looking Together: Writers on Art". Book by Rebecca Brown and Mary Jane Knecht, April 30, 2009.

Jonathan Raban

#Eye Quotes #Class Quotes #Tourists Quotes

“When they started to drain a swamp where birds and fish had lived, for a new housing development down the road from his apartment, Steven watched the protests and the preparations with interest. The bird people were furious, the developers unmovable, and Steven was filled with relief that the fight wasn't his. Nothing here was his... He thought there should have been something sad about how little he was tied up with the place, but instead it felt like freedom. He was free because it wasn't his water here, and they weren't his fish.”
“We're fighting against humanism, we're fighting against liberalism...we are fighting against all the systems of Satan that are destroying our nation today...our battle is with Satan himself.”

Source : "From bad to worse" by Melissa McEwan, www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2006.
“As we walk our individual life journeys, we pick up resentments and hurts, which attach themselves to our souls like burrs clinging to a hiker's socks. These stowaways may seem insignificant at first, but, over time, if we do not occasionally stop and shake them free, the accumulation becomes a burden to our souls.”
“If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.”
“The difference between me and them is that I'll look at Jesse Jackson and I'll see four Jesse Jacksons, and they'll just see one, the clown ambulance chaser.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.”
“I still pinch myself that I ended up in Hollywood. And I am still surprised at the fans.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience.”

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