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Very Quotes by Ben Okri
- Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of…
- I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got…
- We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.
- Home can be the friend you have been searching for all your life or the person you met once very briefly.
- I am one year older than Nigeria at 51. In a human life, 51 might be old. But it is very young for a nation.…
- Some of my reactions are very Nigerian. I still believe that words are things.
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