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Critics? Dont talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes jou

Critics? Dont talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I dont. – Jonathan Raban

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The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison with Obamas Dreams From My Father is Jimmy Carters short campaign autobiography, Why Not the Best?, published in 1975. – Jonathan Raban

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Dreams
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Dreams From My Father reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after theyre dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it shows his mind working, in real time, sentence by sentence, in what feels like a private audience with the reader. – Jonathan Raban

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Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted. – Jonathan Raban

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In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things. – Harvey Fierstein

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Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive. – Scott Adams

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They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward. – Thomas Edison

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You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that its not a natural drive – its born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood. – Gabrielle Union

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The truth is that men are tired of liberty. – Benito Mussolini

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization. – Ann Oakley

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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully. – Walter Lippmann

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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation. – Jorge Luis Borges

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