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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 by stories, we…
- The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our…
- The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.
- We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet,…
- What hope is there for individual reality or authenticity when the forces of violence and orthodoxy, the earthly powers of guns and bombs and manipulated…
- One human life is deeper than the ocean. Strange fishes and sea-monsters and mighty plants live in the rock-bed of our spirits. The whole of…
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