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I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends’ floors, was happy, was miserable.

Ben Okri

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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Art Hide Magic Nothing
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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Attention Common Magic
Don’t neglect the gold in your own back yard.
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Gold Neglect Yards
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
To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. … That’s what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind, who can walk a silver line in hell or madness.
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Mind Perfect Story
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The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them.
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Age Giving Stories
The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
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Converting Stories World
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
This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of ocean. Some people say when we are born we’re born into stories. I say we’re also born from stories.
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Ocean People Stories
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
This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.
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Down Grows Like
I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.
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Country Home Literature
To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
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Belief Quite Situation Something
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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Art Magic Nothing
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
Creativity is the art of the impossible
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Art Creativity Impossible

I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends’ floors, was happy, was miserable.

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