What did Jonathan Raban mean by: In an underdeveloped country don’t drink the water. In a developed country don’t breathe the air. - Jonathan Raban Writer · United Kingdom Copy
+ No president has come near to rivaling Lincoln as a writer. Feraz Zeid, November 4, 2023December 26, 2023, Jonathan Raban, President, 0 - Jonathan Raban Writer · United Kingdom
+ Spells of acute loneliness are an essential part of travel. Loneliness makes things happen. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Jonathan Raban, Essentials, Loneliness, Make Things Happen, 0 - Jonathan Raban Writer · United Kingdom
+ Inaugurals conventionally start with a history lesson and finish with a prayer. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Jonathan Raban, Lessons, Prayer, 0 - Jonathan Raban Writer · United Kingdom
+ Trouble defies the law of gravity. It’s easier to pick up than to drop. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Jonathan Raban, Easier, Law, Trouble, 0 - Jonathan Raban Writer · United Kingdom
+ Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Jonathan Raban, Bars, Presidential, 0 - Jonathan Raban Writer · United Kingdom
+ If we live inside a bad joke, it is up to us to learn, at best and worst, to tell it well. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Jonathan Raban, Worst, 0 - Jonathan Raban Writer · United Kingdom
Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature. - Louis Pasteur Microbiologist · France
But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature. - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they “artialize” nature. - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
Everyone, when there’s war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
Healing,’ Papa would tell me, ‘is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.’ - W. H. Auden Poet · England
Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country. - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Poet · France
