"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."

-- Ben Okri

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“What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating”
“The US is indeed a terrorist nation. ...It's also the greatest purveyor of violence on earth over the past half century, and the foremost threat to world peace today.”

Source : "Bill Ayers: The United States Is the Foremost Threat to World Peace Today". Interview with Kourosh Ziabari, en.farsnews.com. December 06, 2014.
“Thoughts are odd misfires.”

Source : Patricia Cornwell (2001). “The Last Precinct: Scarpetta”, p.36, Penguin
“I started [in television] as a local sportscaster in Oklahoma City and that will always be my love. It's kind of what I live for.”
“The fact is that astrological beliefs go back at least 2,500 years. Now that should be a sufficiently long time for astrologers to prove their case. They have not proved their case...It's just simply gibberish. The fact is, there's no theory for it, there are no observational data for it. It's been tested and tested over the centuries.”
“How can the Replacements be the best band of the 80s when I've never even heard of them?”
“Go without a coat when it's cold; find out what cold is. Go hungry; keep your existence lean. Wear away the fat, get down to the lean tissue and see what it's all about. The only time you define your character is when you go without. In times of hardship, you find out what you're made of and what you're capable of. If you're never tested, you'll never define you character.”
“Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.”

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