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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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Ben Okri
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: March 15
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Vision
True
Power
Love
Courage
Ought

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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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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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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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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 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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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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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.
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To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
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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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Don't neglect the gold in your own back yard.
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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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A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.
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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 law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.
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