Quote by Jonathan Raban
Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied m

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

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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
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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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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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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing. – John Donne

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Rejection

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void. – Ursula K. LeGuin

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Rejection

Oh, great reviews are the worst. They mislead you more than the bad ones, because they only fuel your ego. Then you only want another one, like potato chips or something, and the best thing you get is fat and bloated. Id rather just refuse, thanks. – Chazz Palminteri

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Rejection

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate… but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins. – Franz Kafka

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Rejection

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God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer. – Anne Sexton

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I try to keep it light and positive most of the time, whereas earlier on I didnt always do that. – Gordon Lightfoot

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Talking is always positive. Thats why I talk too much. – Louis C. K.

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Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved. – Marcus Antonius

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