"I held you in the square And felt……" — Ben Okri
"I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile."
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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 Evening Quotes
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In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of…
— Leon Askin
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These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Close your eyes and place your finger on a map. Wherever it lands, that's the theme of the evening. So…
— Mario Batali
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The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
— William Blake
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We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised…
— James Agee
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Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city's western reaches, days passed…
— Geraldine Brooks
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Make no mistake, most women are well aware that they've never had it so good; when they enter a spa…
— Julie Burchill
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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow…
— Lord Byron
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To go to the synagogue with one's father on the Passover eve - is there in the world a greater…
— Sholom Aleichem
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I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world,…
— James Cameron
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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it…
— Willa Cather
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