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What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.

Ben Okri

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
It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.
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Agreement Important Writing
A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose it’s moorings or orientation… Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart larger.
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Heart Mad People
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
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
Life throws stones at you, but your love and your dream change those stones into the flowers of discovery. Even if you lose, or are defeated by things, your triumph will always be exemplary. And if no one knows it, then there are places that do.
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Discovery Dream Exemptarty Stone Thing
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 lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends’ floors, was happy, was miserable.
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Homeless Miserable Wit
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
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Fear Heart Telling Stories
Creativity is the art of the impossible
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Art Creativity Impossible
Don’t neglect the gold in your own back yard.
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Gold Neglect Yards
Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.
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Inspiring Night Water
Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.
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Artist Broken Enemy
To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
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Belief Quite Situation Something
I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.
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Order Smile Squares
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

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