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"Be kind to express your love for life. No reason is needed to be kind."
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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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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