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Way Quotes by Ben Okri
- Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste…
- Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras,…
- 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…
- Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.
- Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.
- I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning…
- We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet,…
- What hope is there for individual reality or authenticity when the forces of violence and orthodoxy, the earthly powers of guns and bombs and manipulated…
- I became a sceptic of one way of seeing the world. And I think it is what started me in my awareness that any worldview…
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