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I know that human beings are capable of anything.

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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Humans
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Capable
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The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.
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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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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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The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
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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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Don't neglect the gold in your own back yard.
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Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.
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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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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.
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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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I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.
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When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
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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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To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
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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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People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.
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