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The greatest religions convert the world through stories.

Ben Okri

To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
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Belief Quite Situation Something
Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected.
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Childhood Destiny Dream
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
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
A man’s greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.
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Battle Fighting Men
I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.
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Order Smile Squares
Don’t despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.
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Beautiful Despair Secret
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
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Fear Heart Telling Stories
Literature doesn’t have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of spirit. The characters of Turgenev are ghetto dwellers. Dickens characters are Nigerians.
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Character Country Ghetto
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
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
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
Creativity is the art of the impossible
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Art Creativity Impossible
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
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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Art Magic Nothing
This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.
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Down Grows Like

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