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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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I dont understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure. – Cate Blanchett

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Im fascinated by failure, and Im fascinated by finality. Shakespeares historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful. – George Hickenlooper

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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. – Zig Ziglar

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Hollywood… a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread. – Dirk Benedict

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