To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
BEN OKRIIn the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road was once a river it was always hungry.
More Ben Okri Quotes
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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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I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.
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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.
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This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.
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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me – unintentionally – was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.
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A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.
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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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It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.
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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 strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.
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Don’t read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.
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I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.
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I know that human beings are capable of anything.
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The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them.
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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.
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