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Creativity is the art of the impossible

Ben Okri

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
We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It’s just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there.
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Destiny Dream Fate
Our time here is magic! It’s the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It’s the only space.
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Beautiful Space Unique
An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.
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Darker Darkness Inner
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
I was going to be a scientist.
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Dream Going Job Scientist
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
People like you enrich the dreams of the worlds, and it is dreams that create history. People like you are unknowing transformers of things, protected by your own fairy-tale, by love.
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Create History People Protected Transformer
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
When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
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Inventing Reality Stop Thing
Creativity is the art of the impossible
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Art Creativity Impossible
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
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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Art Hide Magic Nothing
The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
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Converting Stories World
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
a dream can be the highest point of a life
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Dream Highest Life

Creativity is the art of the impossible

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