A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.
BEN OKRII know that human beings are capable of anything.
More Ben Okri Quotes
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I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.
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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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There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.
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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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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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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 know that human beings are capable of anything.
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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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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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The whole of human history is an undiscovered continent deep in our souls. There are dolphins, plants that dream, magic birds inside us. The sky is inside us. The earth is in us.
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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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I was going to be a scientist.
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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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The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
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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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