If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom.
BEN OKRIWhen you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
More Ben Okri Quotes
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Don’t read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.
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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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I know that human beings are capable of anything.
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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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When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity’s chief instrument.
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We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.
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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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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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The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.
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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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Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.
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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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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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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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An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.
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