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Ben Okri

"Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide."

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"Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide."

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"For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art."

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"The proper stuff of fiction does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction every feeling every thought every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon no perception comes amiss. And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her as well as honour and love her for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured."

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"Be an artist in everything you do."

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"I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed."

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"The writing of somemenis like a vast bridgethat carries youoverthe many thingsthat claw and tear.The Wine of Forever."

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"Music gives life to the soul."

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"In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do his job and then shut up."

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"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."

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"There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art."

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"The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell."
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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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"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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"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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