"Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue (in the American, not the British, sense) as deep ultramarine, and its manners are studiously polite."

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Source : Jonathan Raban (2017). “Driving Home: An American Scrapbook”, p.378, Pan Macmillan

Jonathan Raban

#Blue Quotes #Cities Quotes #Manners Quotes

“My death is very near to me, and of this I am glad, for I desire to pursue the quest in other realms, as it has been promised to me that I shall do.”
“Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.”
“Capitalism is about the mutual creation of wealth rather than the pillaging of it.”

Source : "Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise". Book by Ted Malloch, 2011.
“A good Christian cannot be a bad husband or father and, as this is equally true in everything, he who has the most piety will shine the most in all the relationships of life.”

Source : John Owen, John Angell James (2010). “The Marriage Ring: Or How to Make Home Happy”
“Well, I guess I am about the livest dead man you ever saw; although I was once asked to accept a coffin.”
“The action pictures I've been typically involved with, when somebody gets punched, you really feel the punching, and when somebody gets shot, you really feel the shot.”

Source : Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 23, 2013.
“We are constantly telling ourselves what we most want to know, and at the same time are deaf to it. Why does envy have such a fierce bite? Why do we fall silent or get worried just as our story is about to spring out of our control and into its own life? Whose shadow falls across the page?”

Source : Bonnie Friedman (1993). “Writing past dark: envy, fear, distraction, and other dilemmas in the writer's life”
“I admire the Shabbat tradition, and no matter which faith you are of, there is nothing more wonderful than dedicating a certain day to spend time with your family and loved ones, absent of TV, phone, and other interruptions.”

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