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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.

Ben Okri

The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.
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Karma Law Simple
The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.
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Artist Imagination Secret
a dream can be the highest point of a life
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Dream Highest Life
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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Hungry Rivers World
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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Soul Stories Three
To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they
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Art Poison Stories
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
I was going to be a scientist.
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Dream Going Job Scientist
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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Agreement Important Writing
Creativity is the art of the impossible
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Art Creativity Impossible
What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.
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Create Eventually Make People
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
The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
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Converting Stories World
The whole of human history is an undiscovered continent deep in our souls. There are dolphins, plants that dream, magic birds inside us. The sky is inside us. The earth is in us.
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Birds Fish Inside Magic Strange
Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories
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Mad Silence Stories
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

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