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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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Our jovial star reigned at his birth.
— William Shakespeare
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It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I am perfectly satisfied that my Father and my god is a cheerful, pleasant, lively, and good-natured Being. Why? Because I am…
— Heber C. Kimball
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People think SEALs are cold-blooded, heartless, wound-up, brainwashed killers. They imagine you can just point a SEAL in a direction and say,…
— Howard E. Wasdin
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The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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A zombie apocalypse isn't the most jovial situation.
— Danai Gurira
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If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial…
— Earl King
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Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where…
— Washington Irving
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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We…
— Ben Okri
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Al was standing a bare three feet away, his mood almost jovial as he took the paper and it vanished in a…
— Kim Harrison
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Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in…
— Charles Dickens
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When I first came into the business, I had to, for the sake of being able to sell myself as an artist,…
— Kelly Price
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