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Dreams From My Father reveals more about Obama than is usually kno

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

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You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization. – Denis Waitley

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The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits , who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament. – Paracelsus

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It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much. – Louis de Bernières

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Im particularly proud of my reluctance to share my dreams with anyone. – Todd Barry

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