Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected.
BEN OKRIReading, 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.
More Ben Okri Quotes
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We can still astonish the gods in humanity And be the stuff of future legends, If we but dare to be real, And have the courage to see That this is the time to dream The best dream of them all.
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Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.
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Literature doesn’t have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of spirit. The characters of Turgenev are ghetto dwellers. Dickens characters are Nigerians.
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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’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 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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We are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right.
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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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I was going to be a scientist.
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To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
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Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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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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Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
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Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.
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An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.
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