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

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Rejection
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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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Failure
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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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I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true. – Arsenio Hall

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Dreams are illusions, and we cant let go of them because we would be dead. – David Copperfield

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Dreams

Man is firmly convinced that he is awake in reality he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself. – Gustave Meyrink

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Dreams

I want to find someone whos really into something like Im really into something, so that I can support them and we can both cheer each other on. Ive got a lot of dreams I want to achieve, and I hope someone can cheer me on as Ill cheer them on in their dreams. – Hunter Hayes

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Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good. – John Charles Polanyi

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