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Ben Okri

"I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare."

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Akiroq Brost

"I like home. It's warm and there are books."

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"Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go."

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Akiroq Brost

"Laura Ingalls Wilder said, "Home is the nicest place there is."

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"No guest rooms. I shake my head resolutely. "I want to be in a room room. A lived-in room."

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"My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home."

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"My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world."

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"One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is."

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"Sometimes to be at home is like a nightmare by Stephen King."

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"It was a show that you played at home and you're saying to the contestant do this and do that. When you at home are involved in yelling at the screen, then you know you've got an audience."

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Akiroq Brost

"An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write."

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Ben Okri
"The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing."

Attention

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Ben Okri
"I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable."

Friendship

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Ben Okri
"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

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Ben Okri
"The greatest religions convert the world through stories."

World

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Ben Okri
"Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible."

Art

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Ben Okri
"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

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Ben Okri
"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

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Ben Okri
"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

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Ben Okri
"Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger."

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Ben Okri
"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

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