"I went to London because, for me, it……" — Ben Okri
"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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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 Dickens Quotes
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one of 118 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
— Margaret Atwood
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Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.
— Peter Ackroyd
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
— Alan Bennett
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One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as…
— Danny Boyle
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
— Michael Caine
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Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in…
— Maya Angelou
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I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.
— William Shakespeare
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I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.
— David McCullough
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I've been in the entertainment industry since I was six-years-old ... As Charles Dickens says, 'It's been the best of…
— Michael Jackson
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Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick…
— Bob Dylan
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Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is…
— John Berger
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I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.
— Donna Tartt
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