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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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Ben Okri
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: March 15
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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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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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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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Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.
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Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.
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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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We can still astonish the gods in humanity And be the stuff of future legends, If we but dare to be real, And have the courage to see That this is the time to dream The best dream of them all.
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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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This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.
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I know that human beings are capable of anything.
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To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they
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I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.
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People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.
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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 law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.
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The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.
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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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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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Creativity is the art of the impossible
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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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