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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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Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest…
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So long as there are poor, - I am poor, - So long as there are prisons, - I am a prisoner,…
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The problem with my eyes is that they have been famished, but now they are feasting.
— Zedd
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Let those who are famished come that they may lay aside perpetual hunger and be filled with heavenly food.
— Lactantius
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The beauty was in the waking of the powerless. Is it always to be true that it is impossible to have things…
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I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very…
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he sucked the nectar from her heart like a famished butterfly.
— Ellen Hopkins
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I'm not hungry," Alexander whispered. "I'm famished. Watch out for me. Now, don't make a single sound," he said, moving on top…
— Paullina Simons
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One thing is certain: the arts keep you alive. They stimulate, encourage, challenge, and, most of all, guarantee a future free from…
— Vincent Price
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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against false sentiments…
— C.S. Lewis
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How could I know a famished heart will eat its mind? Can kill its body?
— David Mitchell
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Tabitha checked her watch. It was almost ten. “I don’t know about you, but I’m famished. Want to go grab a bite?”…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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