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The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

Ben Okri

A man’s greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.
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Battle Fighting Men
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
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Fear Heart Telling Stories
Don’t try and press it down. Don’t hide from it. Don’t escape. It is life too. It is truth. But it will pass and time will put a strange honey in the bitterness. That’s the way life goes.
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Escape Life Press Strange
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
If you are working in an office, where do you find the time to write a novel? But you can finish a short story in five pages. Furthermore, a short story is a perfect place to learn the craft
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Office Perfect Writing
People 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.
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Create History People Protected Transformer
Don’t neglect the gold in your own back yard.
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Gold Neglect Yards
To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
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Belief Quite Situation Something
I’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.
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Circles Past Writing
The 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.
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Birds Fish Inside Magic Strange
To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
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Anyone Home Homeless
$Ben Okri Quote - The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them.$

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
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
People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.
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Healthy People Stories
Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.
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Artist Broken Enemy
Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.
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Individual Secret Stories

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