"Beware of the stories you read or tell;……" — Ben Okri
"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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89 Quotes by Ben Okri
Ben Okri has 89 quotes on this site.
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Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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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…
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Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there…
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Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out…
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The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering…
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The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy:…
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Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.
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In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole…
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The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe,…
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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…
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To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who…
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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…
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More Altering Quotes
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All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the…
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The eye altering, alters all.
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Every change in human attitude must come through internal understanding and acceptance. Man is the only known creature who can…
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An act cannot be defined by the end sought by the actor, for an identical system of behaviour may be…
— Emile Durkheim
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A fact bobbed up from my memory, that the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for…
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By altering his arrangements and changing his plans, the skillful general keeps the enemy without definite knowledge. By shifting his…
— Sun Tzu
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We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives,…
— Joshua Foer
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We have the ability to create choice by altering our interpretations of the world.
— Sheena Iyengar
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Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.
— Carlos Castaneda
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The traveler's boast, sometimes couched as a complaint, is that of having been an eyewitness, and invariably this experience -…
— Paul Theroux
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Our legacy is really the lives we touch, the inspiration we give, altering someone's plan - if even for a…
— Carrie Hamilton
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If the juices of the body were more chymically examined, especially by a naturalist, that knows the ways of making…
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