I learned that life will go through changes – up and down and up again. It’s what life does.
BEN OKRII learned that life will go through changes – up and down and up again. It’s what life does.
BEN OKRIAn inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.
BEN OKRIWe have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.
BEN OKRIDon’t read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.
BEN OKRIThe most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
BEN OKRII am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.
BEN OKRIA man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.
BEN OKRII was going to be a scientist.
BEN OKRIDestiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected.
BEN OKRIThe best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it’s about us, it’s about the reader.
BEN OKRIThe whole of human history is an undiscovered continent deep in our souls. There are dolphins, plants that dream, magic birds inside us. The sky is inside us. The earth is in us.
BEN OKRIWe can still astonish the gods in humanity And be the stuff of future legends, If we but dare to be real, And have the courage to see That this is the time to dream The best dream of them all.
BEN OKRIPeople like you enrich the dreams of the worlds, and it is dreams that create history. People like you are unknowing transformers of things, protected by your own fairy-tale, by love.
BEN OKRII’m conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There’s hardly a day that goes past on which I don’t write poetry.
BEN OKRIWho knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.
BEN OKRITo poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they
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