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Ben Okri

"We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings."

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"We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings."

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Akiroq Brost

"What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance that the first impulse will be to laugh. That's all right. Laugh if you must. Just don't take your eye off what you see, for even in your imagination, here is a creature who can do you damage."

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"Novelists are basically inviting their readers to play a game of pretend. That's what fiction is: a game of pretend."

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"Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets."

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"But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality."

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"Imminent GM bankruptcy was always fiction, created by Wall Street and the media."

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"A man walked across the moors from Razorback to Lancre town without seeing a single marshlight, head-less dog, strolling tree, ghostly coach or comet, and had to be taken in by a tavern and given a drink to unsteady his nerves."

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"In camp was found a book, the first of the kind I had ever seen, in which I was made a great hero, slaying Indians by the hundreds."

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"Flakes of snow swirled and danced across the porch. The Overlook faced it as it had for nearly three-quarters of a century, its darkened windows now bearded with snow, indifferent to the fact it was now cut off from the world. Inside its shell the three of them went about their early evening routine, like microbes trapped in the intestine of a monster."

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Akiroq Brost

"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity."

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"You can't burn down a made-up place."

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"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."
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"The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing."
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"I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable."
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"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."
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"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."
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"The greatest religions convert the world through stories."
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"Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible."
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"Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it."
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"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."
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