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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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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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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Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos. – Jackie Gleason

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Dreams

I cant comprehend that Im in the film of Les Miserables. Its one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere. – Samantha Barks

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Dreams

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world. – Erich Fromm

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Dreams

I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, Maybe I want to be an actor. And she said, Maybe not that. – Octavia Spencer

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Dreams

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O! I am fortune’s fool. – William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

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Fate

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home. – J. K. Rowling

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Home

I dont like Tommy on Broadway at all. I like the music, Im pleased with Petes success but I dont like what theyve done to it. – Roger Daltrey

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Success

Analysts may be correct that the presidential election wont primarily turn on entitlements reform, but by choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney can, contrary to conventional wisdom, make it a winning issue and lay the foundation for a reform mandate when he wins. – David Limbaugh

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Wisdom