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To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.

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Ben Okri
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: March 15
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I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.
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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.
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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, a clear mind, who can walk a silver line in hell or madness.
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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 repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.
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Beware of the stories you read or tell subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.
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This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of ocean. Some people say when we are born we're born into stories. I say we're also born from stories.
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People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.
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I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.
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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 fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they
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The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
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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.
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When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
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A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.
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To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
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The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.
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Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories
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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 of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.
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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, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.
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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 history. Nobody has an absolute reality.
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This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.
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