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Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a great guide,…
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Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been…
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Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it…
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The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering will never…
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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…
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Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.
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In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And…
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The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re…
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I'm fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is looking out of the world through their emotion and…
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To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not…
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Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life,…
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Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
— Josh Billings
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It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their conviction. I wish I could teach the sad young of…
— John Ciardi
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Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.
— Josh Billings
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Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
— Barbara Tuchman
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If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth; but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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How much wilderness do the wilderness-lovers want? ask those who would mine and dig and cut and dam in such sanctuary spots…
— Wallace Stegner
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Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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It is easy enough to say, I do not believe in God. For God permits all things to be said of Him…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I learned from my illiterate but wise mother that all rights to be deserved and preserved came from duty well done. Thus…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your convict prisons…
— Georges Bernanos
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It is easy enough to tell the poor to accept their poverty as Gods will when you yourself have warm clothes and…
— Thomas Merton
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The world is filled with folly and sin, And Love must cling, where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy enough…
— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
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