Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
BEN OKRIIn the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road was once a river it was always hungry.
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In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road was once a river it was always hungry.
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We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.
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The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.
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If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom.
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People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.
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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me – unintentionally – was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.
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I know that human beings are capable of anything.
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I was going to be a scientist.
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It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.
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Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a greater life.
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Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste your grief to the fullest.
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People like you enrich the dreams of the worlds, and it is dreams that create history. People like you are unknowing transformers of things, protected by your own fairy-tale, by love.
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The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
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The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.
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The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.
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