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Stories Quotes by Ben Okri
- To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind,…
- The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we…
- To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of…
- I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and…
- Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.
- Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.
- It is easy to forget how mysterious and mighty stories are. They do their work in silence, invisibly. They work with all the internal materials…
- People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.
- Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
- The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.
- The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
- A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad.…
- Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories
- I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels. But…
- The greatest stories are those that resonate our beginnings and intuit our endings, our mysterious origins and our numinous destinies, and dissolve them both into…
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- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
- For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices… — Lance Armstrong
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison,… — Julian Assange
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe