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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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"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."
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"I had the most beautiful dream, and then I fell asleep in your arms and my dream turned lovelier still."
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"They all dreamt of each other that night, as was natural, considering how thin the partitions were between them, and how strangely they had been lifted off the earth to sit next each other in mid-ocean, and see every detail of each others' faces, and hear whatever they chanced to say."
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"Life happens when you get lost in a dream."
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"In my dream I know I am falling. But there is no up or down, no walls or sides or ceilings, just the sensation of cold and darkness everywhere. I am so scared I could scream. But when I open my mouth, nothing happens. And I wonder if you fall forever and never touch down, is it really still falling? I think I will fall forever."
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"Genius is an African who dreams up snow."
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"The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker."
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"Unsure how to answer, I took another grape. Time was no problem for me, but I wasn't eager to hear the long life story of a dwarf. And besides, this was a dream. It could evaporate any moment."
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"World peace, true love, and happily-ever-afters amount to wasted wishes, failed endeavors, and most precious dreams."
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"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?"
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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."
Attention
"I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable."
Friendship
"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."
Despair
"The greatest religions convert the world through stories."
World
"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."
Reading
"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."
Imagination
"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."
Law
"Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger."
Heart
"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."
Dream
"Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide."
Art
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