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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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To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite…
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Tomorrow, Trubshawe, I am going to get married again, thereby quite possibly making the greatest mistake of my life.
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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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I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity…
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One particular aspect of Siddhartha’s revelation of the outside world has always struck me. Quite possibly he lived his first thirty years…
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Quite possibly, the purpose of the universe is to provide a congenial home for self-conscious creatures who can ask profound questions and…
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There's a very simple reason for focusing on the nuclear issue. Many, many issues are of supreme importance in one way or…
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Put any two people together and each will seek ways of feeling superior to the other. If a ship went down in…
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Outside of advertising, the person who's influenced me most is quite possibly Frank Gehry.
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Quite possibly, what I call happiness may coincide with what others call the moment of imminent danger
— Yukio Mishima
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If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change our lives
— Thomas King
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