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Home can be the friend you have been searching for all your life or the person you met once very briefly.
~ Ben Okri
All Your Life
Been
Friend
Home
Life
Met
Once
Person
Searching
Very
You
Your
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I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.
~ Ben Okri
Am
Beauty
Fighting
Get
I Am
Just
More
More People
Myself
Out
People
Share
Success
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I am one year older than Nigeria at 51. In a human life, 51 might be old. But it is very young for a nation. By that, I mean a Nigeria conscious of itself as a nation.
~ Ben Okri
Am
Conscious
Human
Human Life
I Am
Itself
Life
Mean
Might
Nation
Nigeria
Old
Older
Than
Very
Year
Young
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I became a sceptic of one way of seeing the world. And I think it is what started me in my awareness that any worldview is superstitious.
~ Ben Okri
Any
Awareness
Became
I Think
Me
One-Way
Seeing
Started
Superstitious
Think
Way
World
Worldview
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I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels. But poetry was always there.
~ Ben Okri
Always
Been
Began
Evolved
Fundamental
Journalism
Life
Novels
Poet
Poetry
Stories
Writing
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I believe in leavening. You can't have words sticking out too much, like promontories. They disturb the density. You have to flatten them, or raise the surrounding terrain.
~ Ben Okri
Believe
Density
Disturb
Flatten
I Believe
I Believe In
Like
Much
Out
Raise
Sticking
Surrounding
Terrain
Them
Too
Too Much
Words
You
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I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.
~ Ben Okri
Again
Changes
Does
Down
Go
Learned
Life
Through
Up
Up And Down
Will
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I study people all the time. For some reason, we're not very good at seeing what's there or hearing what we're hearing.
~ Ben Okri
Good
Hearing
People
Reason
Seeing
Some
Study
Time
Very
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I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.
~ Ben Okri
Born
Came
Change
Collapsed
Got
Had
Hand
I Was Born
Later
Left
Left-Handed
Long
Made
Other
Out
Prose
Repetitive
Right
Road
Started
Stress
Syndrome
Use
Using
Very
Which
Wrist
Writing
Wrote
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If you are working in an office, where do you find the time to write a novel? But you can finish a short story in five pages. Furthermore, a short story is a perfect place to learn the craft.
~ Ben Okri
Craft
Find
Finish
Five
Furthermore
Learn
Novel
Office
Pages
Perfect
Place
Short
Story
Time
Where
Working
Write
You
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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.
~ Ben Okri
Agreement
Either
Even
Felt
Important
Leave
Me
Mine
Piece
Reaction
Resonance
Said
Thought
Writer
Writing
You
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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.
~ Ben Okri
Adversity
Always
Bit
Bore
Challenging
Courage
Father
Financial
Gave
Gifts
Greatest
Greatest Gifts
Had
He
Laughing
Life
Man
Me
Periods
Really
Same
Some
Tranquil
Which
Witnessing
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Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.
~ Ben Okri
Act
Acts
Because
Builds
Castles
Civilization
Free
Greatest
Material
Mind
Possibilities
Raw
Raw Material
Reading
Takes
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Some of my reactions are very Nigerian. I still believe that words are things.
~ Ben Okri
Believe
Nigerian
Reactions
Some
Still
Things
Very
Words
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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.
~ Ben Okri
About
Absolutely
Absolutely Not
Best
Reader
Us
Writer
Writing
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The poem is never complete in the mind. It emerges, and then it's like an act of unveiling. The unveiling is the longest and most difficult part of it.
~ Ben Okri
Act
Complete
Difficult
Emerges
Like
Longest
Mind
Most
Never
Part
Poem
Then
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'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' had a formative effect on me. I think it's one of those works that if you encounter it very early you're doubly enchanted by the beauty of the language and the strangeness of the vision. It stays with you.
~ Ben Okri
Ancient
Beauty
Doubly
Early
Effect
Enchanted
Encounter
Formative
Had
I Think
Language
Me
Stays
Strangeness
Think
Those
Very
Vision
Works
You
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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.
~ Ben Okri
About
Africa
Come
Future
How
Jazz
Kind
Like
Past
Present
Rough
Strange
Strange Thing
Thing
Together
You
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The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.
~ Ben Okri
Absolute
Abyss
Bottom
Everything
Failure
Harshness
Human
Learnt
Life
Love
Reached
Rock
Saw
Time
World
Worst
Wrong
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To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
~ Ben Okri
Anyone
Find
Home
Homeless
Say
Who
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