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Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.

Ben Okri

There is a kind of expressed love which is easy to subvert. When a figure is loved for their deeds, their conquests, their heroism, their goodness, their love of the people, these are easy enough to destroy… But there is a kind of love which is felt for apparently no reason…
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Fighting Heroism People
Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you’ve got left is your belief in the imagination.
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Ghetto Imagination Vibrancy
Creativity is the art of the impossible
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Art Creativity Impossible
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
Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.
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Enemy Expression Silence
I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren’t allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.
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Children Dream Kids
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
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
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
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
To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
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Anyone Home Homeless
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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Art Hide Magic Nothing
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
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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Art Magic Nothing
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
The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
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Converting Stories World

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