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Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake. . . . During a recent landfill dig in Phoenix, I found newspapers dating from 1952 that looked so fresh you might read one over breakfast.

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Ben Okri

Don't neglect the gold in your own back yard.

Gold, Yards, Neglect, Back, Yard

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The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re dream our world. The fact of possessing imagination means that everything can be re dreamed. Each reality can have it

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Creativity is the art of the impossible

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I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.

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Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

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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.

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Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake. . . . During a recent landfill dig in Phoenix, I found newspapers dating from 1952 that looked so fresh you might read one over breakfast.

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