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Ben Okri has 92 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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 great guide,…
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Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been…
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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 of it…
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The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering will never…
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The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live…
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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 world. And…
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The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re…
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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 emotion and…
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To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not…
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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 for life,…
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Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans-liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal-the largest voluntary migrations in recorded history.…
— George H. W. Bush
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We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You don't think about anything because you just try to playevery game, every point. If you get some chance, you try to…
— Nikolay Davydenko
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He, who has blended the useful with the sweet, has gained every point .
— Horace
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It's shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you're just thinking about nothing except winning every point.
— Andre Agassi
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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
— Horace
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If you prepare yourself at every point as well as you can, with whatever means you may have, however meager they may…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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I knew I could play well on the grass, but I really played so well today. I knew exactly what I had…
— Petra Kvitova
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The 'environmental crisis' has happened because the human household or economy is in conflict at almost every point with the household of…
— Wendell Berry
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In my relativity theory I set up a clock at every point in space, but in reality I find it difficult to…
— Albert Einstein
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Never in all their history have men been able truly to conceive of the world as one: a single sphere, a globe,…
— Archibald MacLeish
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But every point of view is a point of blindness: it incapacitates us for every other point of view. From a certain…
— Richard Wurmbrand
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