"This is what you must be like. Grow……" — Ben Okri

"This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down."

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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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Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down. — J. J. Abrams
Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear… — Desi Arnaz
This is the sheriff you're talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is going to… — Joe Arpaio
The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the… — Mary Astell
I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help… — Rodney Atkins
I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for… — Rowan Atkinson
I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones,… — Margaret Atwood
The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as… — Chinua Achebe

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