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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me – unintentionally – was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.

Ben Okri

Don’t read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.
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Checks Everyone Read Reading
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
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
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
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
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
To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
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Belief Quite Situation Something
A man’s greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.
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Battle Fighting Men
We are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right.
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Enchanted Spirit Time
Don’t try and press it down. Don’t hide from it. Don’t escape. It is life too. It is truth. But it will pass and time will put a strange honey in the bitterness. That’s the way life goes.
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Escape Life Press Strange
We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.
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Fiction Humanity Mean
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
If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom.
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Afraid Dancer Love Spirit
I know that human beings are capable of anything.
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Capable Humans Knows
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 am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.
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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me – unintentionally – was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.

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