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I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends’ floors, was happy, was miserable.

Ben Okri

Don’t read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.
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Checks Everyone Read Reading
To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. … That’s what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind, who can walk a silver line in hell or madness.
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Mind Perfect Story
One human life is deeper than the ocean. Strange fishes and sea-monsters and mighty plants live in the rock-bed of our spirits.
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Dream Ocean Rocks
In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road was once a river it was always hungry.
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Hungry Rivers World
I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.
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Fighting People Share
To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
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Belief Quite Situation Something
To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
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Anyone Home Homeless
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
We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.
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Definitions Destination Require Stop
This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of ocean. Some people say when we are born we’re born into stories. I say we’re also born from stories.
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Ocean People Stories
The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.
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Karma Law Simple
The whole of human history is an undiscovered continent deep in our souls. There are dolphins, plants that dream, magic birds inside us. The sky is inside us. The earth is in us.
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Birds Fish Inside Magic Strange
The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
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Converting Stories World
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 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
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
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Fear Heart Telling Stories

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