"Don't read what everyone else is reading. Check……" — Ben Okri
"Don't read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously."
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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 Cautiously Quotes
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one of 62 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Make haste cautiously.
— Augustus
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You look at science (or at least talk of it) as some sort of demoralising invention of man, something apart…
— Rosalind Franklin
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Herrmann Pidoux and Armand Trousseau stated 'Disease exists within us, because of us, and through us', Pasteur did not entirely…
— Louis Pasteur
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Enlightenment is choicelessness. But don`t misunderstand me. Before that, you will have to move very cautiously, choosing the right against…
— Rajneesh
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The only way for the market to accept this reality is if fares are advanced slowly and cautiously, and the…
— Unknown Author
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Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms,…
— William T. Vollmann
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A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain…
— Ron Chernow
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Unless we proceed cautiously, there might well arise a few generations of mystics who conceive of the orgone metaphysically, divorced…
— Wilhelm Reich
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Don't make a hasty movement. Be like a mountain. Move silently and cautiously.
— Yi Sun-sin
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
— Epictetus
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We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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