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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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Give us, O God, the vision which can see Your love in the world in spite of human failure. Give us the…
— Frank Borman
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Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation…
— Adolf Hitler
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Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do…
— Ernest Hemingway
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The current perception I get from the evening news is that the world is dominated by human failure, crime, catastrophe, corruption, and…
— Deepak Chopra
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There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done.
— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
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When there is good news, and it is news , we do report it, but usually news is a record of human…
— Linda Ellerbee
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War remains the decisive human failure.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
— William James
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends…
— Erich Fromm
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The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at…
— Ben Okri
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We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it impressive at all. The guns and the bombs, the…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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