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"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."
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"Dreaming pleasantly is spiritual."
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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."
"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."
"The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell."
"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."
"I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare."
"I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable."
"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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