A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.
BEN OKRII went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.
More Ben Okri Quotes
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Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected.
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Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.
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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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If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom.
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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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We are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right.
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To 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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What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.
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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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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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Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment.
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Our time here is magic! It’s the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It’s the only space.
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Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste your grief to the fullest.
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If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will.
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