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I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.

Ben Okri

I know that human beings are capable of anything.
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Capable Humans Knows
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 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
Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.
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Enemy Expression Silence
Don’t neglect the gold in your own back yard.
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Gold Neglect Yards
We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.
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Definitions Destination Require Stop
I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.
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Fighting People Share
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
I learned that life will go through changes – up and down and up again. It’s what life does.
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Again Down Up Change
People that don’t exist, places you’ve never visited, enigmatic fates, all come to life in the mind, painted into existence by the reader’s creative powers. In this way the creativity of the writer calls up the creativity of the reader. Reading is never passive.
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Come Creative Mind Pianetd Power
Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.
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Individual Secret Stories
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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 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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Law Police World
I was going to be a scientist.
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Dream Going Job Scientist
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
To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
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Anyone Home Homeless

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