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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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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 law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.
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To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
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The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.
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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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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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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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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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I know that human beings are capable of anything.
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The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.
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Creativity is the art of the impossible
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The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.
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This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.
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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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To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
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