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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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Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?
— Lewis Carroll
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There are two kinds of existentialist; first, those who are Christian...and on the other hand the atheistic existentialists, among whom...I class myself.…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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Do you prefer that you be right or happy?
— Norman Cousins
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If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch;…
— George Santayana
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If your washing machine stops working and you're addicted to appliances that work, you'll get upset and you will suffer. If you…
— Ken Keyes Jr.
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Try this thought experiment. Pretend you're a tyrant. Among your many liberty-destroying objectives are extermination of blacks, Jews and Catholics. Which would…
— Walter E. Williams
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A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages…
— Victor Hugo
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I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day. I love the way their brains work. Joe [her son]…
— Kate Winslet
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At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do…
— Ethan Hawke
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Do you prefer ‘fashion victim’ or ‘ensembly challenged’?
— Alicia Silverstone
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Wesley Stace has always been the only genuinely gifted fiction writer who also happens to be a rock star, but Wonderkid is…
— Sam Lipsyte
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So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal and the teaching so much…
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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