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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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Its surreal to know my dreams are coming true. – Mario Vazquez

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My mother was always working for a job, so I guess I was always trained that I should have multiple jobs, multiple aspirations. And I remember she had multiple aspirations, always hearing about her dreams and things she did in the past and things she wanted to do. – Puff Daddy

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Do It Under the Influence Yourself! Thats what were shooting for! Get drunk and make your dreams come true. – Aziz Ansari

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Ive had quite a lot of luck with dreams. Ive often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head. – Brian Eno

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When Im acting, Im two beings. Theres the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear. – Jeanne Moreau

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