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People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.

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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People
Confident
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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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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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I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.
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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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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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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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The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.
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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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Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.
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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 law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.
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Creativity is the art of the impossible
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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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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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I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.
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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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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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