- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was going to be a scientist.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.
- Hide
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- Nov 07, 2020
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
- Creativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.
- Away
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- Nov 07, 2020
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 suffering.
- Imperfection
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.
- Capable
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that human beings are capable of anything.
- Homeless
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- Nov 07, 2020