"Don't neglect the gold in your own back…" — Ben Okri
"Don't neglect the gold in your own back yard."
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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 Back Yard Quotes
This quote is filed under Back Yard Quotes,
one of 38 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
— Truman Capote
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Women: Can't live with them, can't bury them in the back yard without the neighbors seeing.
— Unknown Author
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My interest in science was excited at age nine by an article on astronomy in National Geographic; the author was…
— Unknown Author
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Courage, determination, and hard work are all very nice, but not so nice as an oil well in the back…
— Mason Cooley
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Shoot you on the front porch and knock you to the back yard.
— Lil Wayne
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Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard…
— Ioan Gruffudd
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If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard. The thrill of…
— Jesse Owens
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I can visualize the time when almost every family will have a small plane in their back yard.
— Henry Ford
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Grissom comes from a place where we know he had a deaf mother, he was raised in a silent household,…
— William Petersen
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I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and…
— Agnes Martin
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But we didn't, not in the moonlight, or by the phosphorescent lanterns of lightning bugs in your back yard, not…
— Stuart Dybek
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You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the…
— Robin Yount
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