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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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We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling…
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I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways.
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My preference is swimming in the sea. I find the sea is more liberating, wild and good fun rather than plodding up…
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Life's up and down from the time you get here to the time you leave.
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You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down…
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All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.
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There are two types of paparazzi. The ones who hide who get you with your mouth hanging wide open or jumping up…
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If I'm in Malibu driving up and down Pacific Coast Highway, my '68 Dodge Charger usually is what I like to drive.
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One of the biggest struggles of my life is my weight. My weight is always going up and down, and I'm always…
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Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.
— Vanessa Paradis
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I've been here 21 years, and I literally did walk up and down Music Row trying to break into the business. I…
— Steven Curtis Chapman
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It was just a typical London flat, but it was in a great neighborhood. It was across from the Playboy Club, diagonally.…
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