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Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories

Ben Okri

Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.
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Inspiring Night Water
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
There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.
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Art Humanity Three
A man’s greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.
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Battle Fighting Men
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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Jazz Past Together
Don’t neglect the gold in your own back yard.
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Gold Neglect Yards
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
Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras, characters, continents, people never encountered before, people you wouldn’t care to sit next to in a train.
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Character Creativity Reading
I’m conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There’s hardly a day that goes past on which I don’t write poetry.
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Circles Past Writing
Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected.
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Childhood Destiny Dream
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
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
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Inspirational Love Sympathy
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
To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
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Anyone Home Homeless
What hope is there for individual reality or authenticity when the forces of violence and orthodoxy, the earthly powers of guns and bombs and manipulated public opinion make it impossible for us to be authentic and fulfilled human beings?
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Beautiful Gun Reality
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
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Fear Heart Telling Stories

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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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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