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You Quotes by Ben Okri
- When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer…
- It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a…
- Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.
- Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
- Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great,…
- The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.
- You cannot come to a Nigerian restaurant without having pepper soup.
- Home can be the friend you have been searching for all your life or the person you met once very briefly.
- If you are working in an office, where do you find the time to write a novel? But you can finish a short story in…
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- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
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- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide