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Ben Okri

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
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
Creativity is the art of the impossible
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Art Creativity Impossible
People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.
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Healthy People Stories
When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity’s chief instrument.
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Chaos Deities Eras
a dream can be the highest point of a life
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Dream Highest Life
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
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me – unintentionally – was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.
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Adversity Father Tranquil
We are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right.
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Enchanted Spirit Time
Don’t neglect the gold in your own back yard.
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Gold Neglect Yards
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The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them.
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Age Giving Stories
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Checks Everyone Read Reading
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
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
You are a mischievous one. You will cause no end of trouble. You have to travel many roads before you find the river of your destiny. This life of yours will be full of riddles. You will be protected and you will never be alone.
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Cause Destiny Rivers
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

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