"Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can……" — Ben Okri

"Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger."

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89 Quotes by Ben Okri

Ben Okri has 89 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a…
Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there…
Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out…
The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering…
The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy:…
Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.
In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole…
The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe,…
I'm fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is looking out of the world through their…
To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who…
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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Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature. — Aeschylus
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I am not a composer of music; I sing pieces which have been written for me which gives me bigger… — Sarah Brightman
Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it… — Harry Browne

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