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Don't neglect the gold in your own back yard.

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Ben Okri
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: March 15
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There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.
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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 because the road was once a river it was always hungry.
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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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Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.
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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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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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I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.
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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 destroy you, but will make you stronger. Success will never confuse you of scatter your spirit, but will make you fly higher into the good sunlight. Your life will always surprise you.
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The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.
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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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We can still astonish the gods in humanity And be the stuff of future legends, If we but dare to be real, And have the courage to see That this is the time to dream The best dream of them all.
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Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.
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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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Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.
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People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.
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When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
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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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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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If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will.
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