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Them Quotes by Ben Okri
- 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…
- Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.
- There is a kind of expressed love which is easy to subvert. When a figure is loved for their deeds, their conquests, their heroism, their…
- What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.
- Don't read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.
- 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…
- I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare. No, let's say Shakespeare…
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