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Creativity is the art of the impossible

Ben Okri

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Ben Okri
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: March 15
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Journalist
Novelist
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Creativity
Impossible
Art

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To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
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When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.
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People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.
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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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Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.
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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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It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.
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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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The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re dream our world. The fact of possessing imagination means that everything can be re dreamed. Each reality can have it
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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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Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.
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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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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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Don't neglect the gold in your own back yard.
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This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.
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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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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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We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.
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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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