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.
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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I’m fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is looking out of the world through their emotion and history. Nobody has an absolute reality.
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The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.
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To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
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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.
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Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.
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a dream can be the highest point of a life
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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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We are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right.
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What hope is there for individual reality or authenticity when the forces of violence and orthodoxy, the earthly powers of guns and bombs and manipulated public opinion make it impossible for us to be authentic and fulfilled human beings?
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This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of ocean. Some people say when we are born we’re born into stories. I say we’re also born from stories.
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I know that human beings are capable of anything.
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Creativity is the art of the impossible
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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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Don’t neglect the gold in your own back yard.
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