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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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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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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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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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There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.
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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.
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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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To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
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One human life is deeper than the ocean. Strange fishes and sea-monsters and mighty plants live in the rock-bed of our spirits. The whole of human history is an undiscovered continent deep in our souls. There are dolphins, plants that dream, magic birds inside us. The sky is inside us. The earth is in us.
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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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This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.
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To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
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Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.
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When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument.
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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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We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.
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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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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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The earliest storytellers were magi, seers, bards, griots, shamans. They were, it would seem, old as time, and as terrifying to gaze upon as the mysteries with which they wrestled .. (they) helped the community live though one more darkness, with eyes wide open, and with hearts set alight.
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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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