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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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Booze is flowing all unknowing; grandma downs a few, smiles and giggles happily enjoying her new brew.
— Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire
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If you, unknowing, are able to create masterpieces in color, then unknowledge is your way. But if you are unable to create…
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When I write, I don't know what is going to emerge. I begin in a condition of complete unknowing, an utter nakedness…
— Jane Hirshfield
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The Senate is an unknowing world
— Robert Caro
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Any company run by unknowing and mechanistic minds is in jeopardy and faces a limited life. Specifically, the pursuance of policies that…
— Peter Cochrane
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Truth walks toward us on the paths of our questions. As soon as you think you have the answer, you have closed…
— Jacqueline Winspear
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A polka-dot has the form of the sun, which is a symbol of the energy of the whole world and our living…
— Yayoi Kusama
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
— John Dryden
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The fact is that the more we take flight upward [to God], the more our words are confined to the ideas we…
— Pope Dionysius
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I pray we... come to this darkness so far above light! If only we lacked sight and knowledge so as to see,…
— Pope Dionysius
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Trinity!! Higher than any being, any divinity, any goodness! Guide of Christians in the wisdom of heaven! Lead us up beyond unknowing…
— Pope Dionysius
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And who in time knows whither we may vent the treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores this gain of our…
— Samuel Daniel
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