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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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Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it…
— Ben Okri
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Those who never rebelled against God or at some point in their lives shaken their fists in the face of heaven, have…
— Catherine Marshall
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The madness of the eyes is the lure of the abyss. Sirens lurk in the dark depths of the pupils as they…
— Jean Lorrain
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I have never encountered a winner that held hate towards something.
— Conor McGregor
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Had Passion and Purity never encountered, Tenderness had never come into the world.
— William Faulkner
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I've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer.
— Melissa Etheridge
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Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
— Douglas MacArthur
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The decor bowled me over. Everywhere I looked, there was something more to see. Botanical prints, a cross section of pomegranates, a…
— Janet Fitch
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In all my years of being with Pittsburgh, I never encountered a player taking a contract dispute into the season and letting…
— Joe Greene
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Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one.
— Craig Brown
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I simply deerisd to thank you so much again. I'm not certain the things that I might have worked on in the…
— Unknown Author
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I have never encountered a problem, that optimism couldnt solve.
— Babloo
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