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Ben Okri

To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. … That’s what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind, who can walk a silver line in hell or madness.
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Mind Perfect Story
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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Mad Silence Stories
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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Dream Mean Reality
People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.
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Healthy People Stories
To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
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Anyone Home Homeless
I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.
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Order Smile Squares
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
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Inspirational Love Sympathy
This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.
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Down Grows Like
The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
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Converting Stories World
I learned that life will go through changes – up and down and up again. It’s what life does.
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Again Down Up Change
Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they’ll only see their narrow range reflected in it.
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Book Reading Writing
When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity’s chief instrument.
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Chaos Deities Eras
Life throws stones at you, but your love and your dream change those stones into the flowers of discovery. Even if you lose, or are defeated by things, your triumph will always be exemplary. And if no one knows it, then there are places that do.
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Discovery Dream Exemptarty Stone Thing
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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Dream Flower Strong
There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.
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Art Humanity Three
The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.
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Jazz Past Together

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