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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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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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Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted. – Jonathan Raban

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What if nothing exists and were all in somebodys dream? Or whats worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists? – Woody Allen

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In Dreams… well, I was slightly overcompensating with that. I was a bit like a director for hire, so maybe I was putting too much imagery that was familiar to me into it. – Neil Jordan

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Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes. – Carl Jung

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If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do. – Jackie Collins

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