Quotes by Raban, Jonathan

One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its rea >>

There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angel >>

Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and >>

Quotations about Cities and City Life

There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear th >>

The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life >>

The city is recruited from the country. >>

Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan