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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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Write what haunts you. What keeps you up at night. What you are unable to get out of your mind. Sometimes they…
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A pretty girl is like a melody. That haunts you night and day.
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Remember one very fundamental thing about life: Any experience that has not been lived will hang around you, will persist: "Finish me!…
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There's nothing worse than the one that got away. It haunts you for weeks like a bad dream, eats away at your…
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There’s a ghost of a dream that you don’t even try to shake free off because you’re too in love with the…
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This thing that haunts you, that never seems satisfied, the cravings in your soul that you are unable to satiate through all…
— Erwin McManus
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Everyone tells you to write what you know. It’s the tried-and-true advice every writer hears at some point in her career. But…
— Sarah Jio
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Ghostly legends dot the Prairie State from its big cities to its small towns. These stories make each community unique in a…
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Inside your own self pity there you swim, in sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you, and only with your…
— Joni Mitchell
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The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the…
— Richard Ford
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Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard.
— Katarina Witt
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Stop," I said. "Please do not further endorken yourself to me. You have great hair and a car that is most fly,…
— Christopher Moore
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