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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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People need dreams, theres as much nourishment in em as food. – Dorothy Gilman

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Dreams

If you want your dreams to come true, dont over sleep. – Yiddish Proverb

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Dreams

Jazz to me is a living music. Its a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people. – Dexter Gordon

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Dreams

It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much. – Louis de Bernières

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The right response to the non-problem of global warming is to have the courage to do nothing. – Christopher Monckton

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Let me go to hell, thats all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss. – Samuel Beckett

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parenting

One aged man — one man — cant fill a house. – Robert Frost

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You demand respect and youll get it. First of all, you give respect. – Mary J. Blige

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