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Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.

Ben Okri

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me – unintentionally – was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.
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Adversity Father Tranquil
When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
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Inventing Reality Stop Thing
If you are working in an office, where do you find the time to write a novel? But you can finish a short story in five pages. Furthermore, a short story is a perfect place to learn the craft
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Office Perfect Writing
Success will never confuse you of scatter your spirit, but will make you fly higher into the good sunlight. Your life will always surprise you.
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Good Higher Success Surprise
The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it’s about us, it’s about the reader.
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Absolutely Reader Writing
I’m fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is looking out of the world through their emotion and history. Nobody has an absolute reality.
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Life Reality Running
An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.
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Darker Darkness Inner
A man’s greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.
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Battle Fighting Men
To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
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Belief Quite Situation Something
I know that human beings are capable of anything.
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Capable Humans Knows
We can still astonish the gods in humanity And be the stuff of future legends, If we but dare to be real, And have the courage to see That this is the time to dream The best dream of them all.
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Dream Inspirational Real
The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re dream our world. The fact of possessing imagination means that everything can be re dreamed. Each reality can have it
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Dream Mean Reality
This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.
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Down Grows Like
Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they’ll only see their narrow range reflected in it.
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Book Reading Writing
A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.
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Able Men Sometimes
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
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Fear Heart Telling Stories

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