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A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.

Ben Okri

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
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
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Fear Heart Telling Stories
We are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right.
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Enchanted Spirit Time
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
Creativity is the art of the impossible
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Art Creativity Impossible
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
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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Art Magic Nothing
Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment.
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Dream Flower Strong
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
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
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
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
Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.
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Artist Broken Enemy
Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they’ll only see their narrow range reflected in it.
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Book Reading Writing
To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
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Anyone Home Homeless
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

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