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“I had the honor to meet Nelson Mandela, and I heard him explain his forgiveness of his captors of 27 years by saying hatred and bitterness is destructive - the power is in love and forgiveness.”

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Dick Gephardt

English biography, 120-180 words more

“When traveling, I usually keep a notebook: when home at my desk, the notebook serves mainly to remind me how little I saw at the time, or rather how I was noticing the wrong things. But the notes do spur memories, and it's the memories I trust. The wine stain on the page may tell me more than the words there, which usually strike me as hopelessly inadequate.”

May Littles Home Memories Saws Pages Wine Notes Strikes Desks Notebook Inadequate Wrong Things Noticing Stains Spurs

Author:Jonathan Raban

“It always seems to me odd to call a place a wilderness when every wilderness area in the US bristles with rules and regulations as to how you can behave, what you're allowed to do, and is patrolled by armed rangers enforcing the small print. They're parks, of course, not wildernesses at all.”

Seems Courses Areas Odd Behave Parks Wilderness Print Regulation Rangers Rules And Regulations Small Print

Author:Jonathan Raban

“Insofar as I think about postmodernism at all, and it doesn't exactly keep me awake at nights, I think of it as something that happens to one, not a style one affects. We're postmoderns because we're not modernists. The modernist writersPound, Eliot, Joyce, Stevens, Yeats, Woolf, Williamsspoke with a kind of vatic authority: they were really the last of the Romantics, for whom authorship itself was like being a solitary prophet in the wasteland.”

Thinking Kind Happens Lasts Night Style Authority Awake Prophet Pounds Spokes Solitary Postmodernism Authorship Joyce Postmodern Eliot Wasteland Woolf Awake At Night Yeats

Author:Jonathan Raban

“We need more urgently than architectural utopias, ingenious traffic disposal systems, or ecological programmes to comprehend the nature of citizenship, to make serious imaginative assessment of that special relationship between the self and the city; its unique plasticity, its privacy and freedom.”

Needs Self Cities Special Serious Unique Privacy Traffic Citizenship Imaginative Utopia Ecological Assessment Programmes Ingenious Special Relationship Plasticity Privacy And Freedom

Book:Soft City: Picador Classic

Source: Soft City: Picador Classic

“The [travel] writer, looking back at the journey from a distance of a year or two (or three), is a different character from the hapless character who undertook the trip: wise after the event, with the leisure to tease out meanings from the experience that the distracted traveler never had, and often impatient with his alter ego's blinkered and unsatisfactory version of things.”

Years Two Different Character Three Wise Journey Events Ego Distance Versions Leisure Looking Back Traveler Distracted Impatient Tease Different Characters Alter Ego

Author:Jonathan Raban

“The Falklands held a mirror up to our own islands, and it reflected, in brilliantly sharp focus, all our injured belittlement, our sense of being beleaguered, neglected and misunderstood.”

Focus Mirrors Islands Misunderstood Neglected Injured Falklands

Author:Jonathan Raban

“If we live inside a bad joke, it is up to us to learn, at best and worst, to tell it well.”

Ifs Wells Worst Jokes Bad Jokes

Author:Jonathan Raban

“Good travel books are novels at heart.”

Heart Book Novel Travel Books

Author:Jonathan Raban

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