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To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.

Ben Okri

$Ben Okri Quote - The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them.$

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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Age Giving Stories
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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Country Home Literature
Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a greater life.
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Soul Stories Three
There is a kind of expressed love which is easy to subvert. When a figure is loved for their deeds, their conquests, their heroism, their goodness, their love of the people, these are easy enough to destroy… But there is a kind of love which is felt for apparently no reason…
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Fighting Heroism People
One human life is deeper than the ocean. Strange fishes and sea-monsters and mighty plants live in the rock-bed of our spirits.
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Dream Ocean Rocks
When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you’re suffering in.
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Realizing Suffering World
A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.
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Able Men Sometimes
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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Attention Common Magic
When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
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Inventing Reality Stop Thing
I learned that life will go through changes – up and down and up again. It’s what life does.
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Again Down Up Change
An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.
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Darker Darkness Inner
I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.
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Fighting People Share
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.
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Children Dream Kids
I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.
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Order Smile Squares
To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
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Anyone Home Homeless
What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.
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Create Eventually Make People

To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.

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