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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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Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.
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. . . how man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood . .…
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In the long run, the power of kindness can redeem beyond the power of force to destroy. There is a vast reservoir…
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A star is drawing on some vast reservoir of energy by means unknown to us. This reservoir can scarcely be other than…
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As long as man was small in numbers and limited in technology, he could realistically regard the earth as an infinite reservoir,…
— Kenneth E. Boulding
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When your consciousness becomes a still mirror, a still lake, a silent reservoir of energy, God is reflected in it.
— Rajneesh
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Where there are few people, and a great quantity of fertile land, the power of the earth to afford a yearly increase…
— Thomas Malthus
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We have that Indian scene. We can get the Indians from the reservoir.
— Samuel Goldwyn
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Mythologies were the earliest dreams of mankind, and in the psychotic delusions of his patients, Jung believed he was encountering those dreams…
— Gary Valentine
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Occasionally we are asked whether it would make sense to modify our investment strategy to perform better in today's financial climate. Our…
— Seth Klarman
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If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. For a canal spreads abroad…
— Bernard of Clairvaux
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