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I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.

Ben Okri

Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected.
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Around Destiny Expected Riddle Way
When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity’s chief instrument.
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Chaos Deities Eras
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
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
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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Afraid Dancer Love Spirit
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
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
I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.
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Order Smile Squares
Literature doesn’t have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of spirit. The characters of Turgenev are ghetto dwellers. Dickens characters are Nigerians.
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Character Country Ghetto
Don’t neglect the gold in your own back yard.
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Gold Neglect Yards
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
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
To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
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Belief Quite Situation Something
a dream can be the highest point of a life
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Dream Highest Life
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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Art Magic Nothing

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