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The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison

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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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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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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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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Dreams
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A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul. – Erich Fromm (Thanks, Sarah)

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Dreams

So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions. – Suze Orman

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Dreams

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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Dreams

Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams. – Amos Bronson Alcott

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Dreams

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To this day I cannot see a bright daffodil, a proud gladiola, or a smooth eggplant without thinking of Papa. Like his plants and trees, I grew up as a part of his garden. – Leo Buscaglia

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