This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.
BEN OKRII’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.
More Ben Okri Quotes
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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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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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I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.
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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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The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
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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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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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People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.
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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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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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There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.
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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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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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A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose it’s moorings or orientation… Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart larger.
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