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Tell Quotes by Ben Okri
- 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.
- The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.
- 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.…
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