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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
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
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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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I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.
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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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I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.
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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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To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
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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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A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose it’s moorings or orientation... Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart larger.
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When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
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To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
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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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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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I know that human beings are capable of anything.
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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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A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.
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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, his largeness of spirit. The characters of Turgenev are ghetto dwellers. Dickens characters are Nigerians.
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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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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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