"By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had taken on the dangerous lustre of a promised city. The rumour had gone out that if you had failed in Detroit you might yet succeed in Seattle - and that if you'd succeeded in Seoul, you could succeed even better in Seattle... Seattle was the coming place. So I joined the line of hopefuls."

-- Jonathan Raban

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“The love is what's left at the end because it's the bedrock, fundamental reality that gets hidden all the time, but never really goes away.”
“When that man wants something, he'll stop at nothing to get it. And I also believed in the good of him.”

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“I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.”
“In England it is bad manners to be clever, to assert something confidently. It may be your own personal view that two and two make four, but you must not state it in a self-assured way, because this is a democratic country and others may be of a different opinion.”
“So when people ask me if I believe God created the universe, I tell them that the question itself makes no sense. Time didn't exist before the Big Bang, so there is no time for God to make the universe in. It's like asking for directions to the edge of the earth; the earth is a sphere, it doesn't have an edge, so looking for it is a futile exercise.”
“There's a big anti-intellectual strain in the American south, and there always has been. We're not big on thought.”
“oh, my God," I whispered. "But how did they get my photo? Alex tapped his mouth with his thumb. "That ...book with everyone's picture in it, that you have in high school." "Yearbook," I said. Was he trying to be funny? But of course he was right; that's exactly where it was from.”
“Iâ€™ve always been a sponge, just absorbing whatever I see, whether itâ€™s in daily life or in art.”

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