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

Other quotes by Jonathan Raban

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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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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Dreams
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My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species. – Peter Diamandis

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Dreams

Anderson Cooper every night dreams about getting my job permanently really. – Regis Philbin

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Dreams

My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. Thats what an actor wants to do. – John Astin

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Dreams

Ive woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. Im listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record. – Lenny Kravitz

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Dreams

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My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history. – Russell Banks

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Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. – Victor Hugo

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Fall, not spring, is the time in this region to clear away dead leaves and branches, to renovate the borders, to start new gardens…. And even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn. – Elizabeth Lawrence, A Southern Garden

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Autumn