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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.
~ Ben Okri
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I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.
~ Ben Okri
Floors
Friends
Happy
Homeless
Lived
Miserable
Rough
Streets
Wits
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I was going to be a scientist.
~ Ben Okri
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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.
~ Ben Okri
Because
Dickens
Home
Literature
London
Me
Shakespeare
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Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
~ Ben Okri
Art
Becomes
Hide
Magic
Nothing
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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.
~ Ben Okri
Beautiful
Great
Here
Magic
Only
Our
Our Time
Potential
Rare
Realize
Space
Time
True
Unique
Whatever
You
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Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.
~ Ben Okri
Art
Creativity
Impossible
Politics
Possible
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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.
~ Ben Okri
Act
Book
Bring
Creative
Creative Act
Like
Narrow
Only
Range
Readers
Reading
Reflected
See
Themselves
Then
Writing
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Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
~ Ben Okri
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The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.
~ Ben Okri
Accepted
Acknowledged
Cannot
Dislike
Frontiers
Given
Law
Legislators
Made
Mysteries
Police
Take
Things
Wonder
World
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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.
~ Ben Okri
Fact
Fundamental
Human
Imperfection
Perfection
Story
Storytelling
Tell
Where
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The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
~ Ben Okri
Convert
Greatest
Religions
Stories
Through
World
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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.
~ Ben Okri
Artist
Failure
Fewer
Gestures
Greater
Higher
Imagination
Secret
Tools
Will
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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.
~ Ben Okri
Attention
Away
Both
Common
Doing
Draw
Magician
Much
Our
Politician
Really
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The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
~ Ben Okri
About
Authentic
Capacity
Create
Endure
Greater
Love
Most
Our
Overcome
Suffering
Than
Thing
To Love
Transform
Us
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We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.
~ Ben Okri
Beings
Definition
Description
Fallen
Fiction
Human
Human Beings
Humanity
Mean
Naturalism
Too
Very
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You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.
~ Ben Okri
Allowed
Another
Dream
Else
Everybody
Everybody Else
Had
Interested
Keep
Kids
Knew
New
New Ones
Nigeria
See
Stories
Tell
Up
Were
Would
You
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Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power.
~ Ben Okri
Artists
Deal
Dream
Dreaming
Element
Get
Makes
Poems
Power
Real
Stories
Where
While
Writers
You
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At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality is subjective; it's conditioned by upbringing, ideas, temperament, religion, what's happened to you.
~ Ben Okri
Conditioned
Essential
Everybody
Happened
Heart
Ideas
Me
Philosophical
Reality
Religion
Road
Subjective
Temperament
Upbringing
You
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Fire is one of my temperaments. It is behind all my work... Fire is a chemical presence.
~ Ben Okri
All My Work
Behind
Chemical
Fire
Presence
Work
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BirthDate
15 March, 1959
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