Quote by Jonathan Raban
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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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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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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IN April 1882 my father died and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere. – Edward Carpenter

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Dreams

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams. – Gaston Bachelard

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Dreams

Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul. – Victoria Woodhull

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Dreams

Hopefully kids will look at me and see that your dreams can come true. – Roy Keane

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Dreams

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The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other. – David Riesman

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Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Religion