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

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I appreciate everything that has been done for me. After a difficult start, Ive just followed my dreams. – Victor Ortiz

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My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams. – Anthony Hopkins

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Dreams are free therapy, but you can only get appointments at night. – Terri Guillemets

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If youre the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, youve gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure. – Vin Diesel

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