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Ben Okri

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
People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.
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Healthy People Stories
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
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
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
Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste your grief to the fullest.
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Grief Miracle Suffering
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
Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.
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Asylums Cases Planet
A man’s greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.
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Battle Fighting Men
a dream can be the highest point of a life
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Dream Highest Life
Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected.
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Childhood Destiny Dream
Don’t read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.
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Checks Everyone Read Reading
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 are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right.
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Enchanted Spirit Time
To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
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Anyone Home Homeless
I know that human beings are capable of anything.
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Capable Humans Knows

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