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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Do all you can to make your dreams come true. – Joel Osteen

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Dreams

I dont remember my dreams. Im one of those weird people. I know there are tricks and things you can do, but I never remember my dreams. – Jayma Mays

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Dreams

I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams. – David Herbert Lawrence

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Dreams are todays answers to tomorrows questions. – Edgar Cayce

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Affairs of state tend to drive most presidents toward the center on both foreign and domestic policy, no matter where on the political spectrum they begin, and especially so in the areas of intelligence and law enforcement. – David K. Shipler

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We do not stop playing because we grow old.
We grow old because we stop playing. – Anon.

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You owe it to yourself to be the best person possible. Because if you are, others will want to be with you, want to provide you with the things you want in exchange for what youre giving to them. – Harry Browne

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Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. – Lucille Ball

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