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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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One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate…
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In the past, it was possible to destroy a village, a town, a region, even a country. Now it is the whole…
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There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet.
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Most individuals have always thought themselves not big enough or significant enough to have an effect on the whole planet, a notion…
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The basic pattern of life is a network. Whenever you see life, you see networks. The whole planet, what we can term…
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Information is power. If you have information about the whole planet you have power over the whole planet. By knowing what people…
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The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation.
— Dan Simmons
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Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the…
— Abdelaziz Bouteflika
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I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T, teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large…
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