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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 went to high school together; he was a year older than me. I remember him there . . . he was…
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I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too.
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In a year's time, he's a year older.
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Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore a year older than me, I soon became interested in…
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Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself…
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That's the great thing about New Year's, you get to be a year older. For me, that wasn't such a joke, because…
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Count yourself lucky. I watched my entire family as they were eaten alive by the very pack of animals you have downstairs…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Juliana's a year older than me, but she sometimes seems younger - mostly because she's the opposite of cynical and I'm the…
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You need to recognize that the copyright date on a book reflects when it came out, not when it was written -…
— Jamais Cascio
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I am one year older than Nigeria at 51. In a human life, 51 might be old. But it is very young…
— Ben Okri
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Jack Kennedy was one year older than I was, and we attended the same neighborhood school.
— Mike Wallace
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