To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
BEN OKRIYou are a mischievous one. You will cause no end of trouble. You have to travel many roads before you find the river of your destiny. This life of yours will be full of riddles. You will be protected and you will never be alone.
More Ben Okri Quotes
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Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras, characters, continents, people never encountered before, people you wouldn’t care to sit next to in a train.
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Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories
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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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Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.
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Don’t read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.
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Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you’ve got left is your belief in the imagination.
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We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It’s just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there.
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Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.
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The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it’s about us, it’s about the reader.
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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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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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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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Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
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Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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