Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.
Jonathan RabanIn an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air.
Jonathan RabanEvery White House has had its intellectuals, but very few presidents have been intellectuals themselves - Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Woodrow Wilson, the list more or less stops there.
Jonathan RabanTravel. It was an intransitive verb. It didn't involve any destinations. It was going to the going's sake, to be anywhere but where you were, with motion itself as the only object.
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