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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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Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up. – Judd Nelson

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We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism. – Billy Barty

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Dreams

Everyone dreams, but not everybody remembers their dreams because some people go into delta they go too low. – Sylvia Browne

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Dreams

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust. – Salvador Dali

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Dreams

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For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty. – John Cheever

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You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth. – Mary J. Blige

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The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles. – Placido Domingo

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The new appears as a minority point of view, and hence is unpopular. The function of a university is to give it a sanctuary. – Martin H. Fischer

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College