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.Ben Okri
The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
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When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument.
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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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Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of spirit. The characters of Turgenev are ghetto dwellers. Dickens' characters are Nigerians. Do y
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