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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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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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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Talking about food is like talking about your dreams. Everyone has something to say. We all have to eat, its just what we eat which differs. Some people eat for fuel and I feel bad for them. – Gael Garcia Bernal

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I tell people Im too stupid to know whats impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true. – Debi Thomas

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Dont be afraid of your dreams. – Jacques Parizeau

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Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair. – Matthew Arnold

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