Potent Quotable (March 2025)
“We like to think of the countryside as settled and placid, not as the scene of perpetual conflict involving class, power, and money, but there’s hardly a feature of any real landscape that doesn’t stand for somebody’s triumph, concession, or defeat.” -Jonathan Raban
“Everybody likes to think that his or her own childhood belonged to a larger age of innocence.” -Jonathan Raban
“Diagnosing death depends on what you are prepared to count as life.” -Jonathan Raban
“It is comfortingly hard to feel a misfit in society where no one you know exactly fits; but to live, rootlessly, among so many other uprooted people does not tend to make you feel like a guest at some large, well-appointed but impersonal hotel.” -Jonathan Raban
My neighbor’s Seattle isn’t mine-or yours. -Jonathan Raban
“You do not club an epiphany to death.” -Jonathan Raban
“The town you left is now hidden in haze. Alone in a circle of diffuse light, you float in silence. In time, the sea and the day will begin to impose their own narrative order on your life; but for now, you are a character as yet unformed, awaiting the sequence of events that will define you.” -Jonathan Raban
“To be an American is a complex fate.” -Henry James
Be good to each other,
Nathan
As a member of the factory, you are taking a stand for human powered creation.
