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Ben Okri

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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Absolutely Reader Writing
When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity’s chief instrument.
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Chaos Deities Eras
When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
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Inventing Reality Stop Thing
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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Beautiful Gun Reality
I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.
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Order Smile Squares
Don’t read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.
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Checks Everyone Read Reading
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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Art Hide Magic Nothing
Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.
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Artist Broken Enemy
Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a greater life.
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Soul Stories Three
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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Art Poison Stories
I was going to be a scientist.
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Dream Going Job Scientist
This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.
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Down Grows Like
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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Facts Hint Perfection
I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.
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Fighting People Share
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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Artist Imagination Secret
Don’t despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.
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Beautiful Despair Secret

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