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If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom.

Ben Okri

Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
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Fear Heart Telling Stories
To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
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Belief Quite Situation Something
Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.
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Enemy Expression Silence
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
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
A man’s greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.
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Battle Fighting Men
If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will.
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Power Should Vision
If you are working in an office, where do you find the time to write a novel? But you can finish a short story in five pages. Furthermore, a short story is a perfect place to learn the craft
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Office Perfect Writing
We can still astonish the gods in humanity And be the stuff of future legends, If we but dare to be real, And have the courage to see That this is the time to dream The best dream of them all.
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Dream Inspirational Real
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
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
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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Mad Silence Stories
Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.
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Artist Broken Enemy
$Ben Okri Quote - The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them.$

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
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

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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