Jonathan Raban's Quote - Dreams From My Father reveals more about Obama than is usually kno

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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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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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Its not only imagination, its the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people. – Olivier Martinez

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Too many athletes are living in a tiny window. They have no vision for themselves – what they can be outside of football and what they can mean to a community. They just dont know any better. My hopes and dreams are unlimited. – Junior Seau

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Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of ones dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being. – Sigmund Freud

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I understand its my role to realize peoples dreams. Im O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me. – Ayumi Hamasaki

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