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• Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
• To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a great guide,…
• Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been…
• Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it…
• The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering will never…
• The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live…
• Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.
• In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And…
• The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re…
• I'm fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is looking out of the world through their emotion and…
• To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not…
• 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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