Ben Okri Quotes

Don’t despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you Ben Okri Picture Quote

Don’t despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you

— Ben Okri

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a Ben Okri Picture Quote

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a

— Ben Okri

The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore Ben Okri Picture Quote

The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore

— Ben Okri

It is not important for me as a writer that you leave Ben Okri Picture Quote

It is not important for me as a writer that you leave

— Ben Okri

If you are working in an office, where do you find the Ben Okri Picture Quote

If you are working in an office, where do you find the

— Ben Okri

This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down. Ben Okri Picture Quote

This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.

— Ben Okri

Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be Ben Okri Picture Quote

Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be

— Ben Okri

People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Ben Okri Picture Quote

People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.

— Ben Okri

What you see is what you make. What you see in a Ben Okri Picture Quote

What you see is what you make. What you see in a

— Ben Okri

Literature doesn’t have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, Ben Okri Picture Quote

Literature doesn’t have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff,

— Ben Okri

I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Ben Okri Picture Quote

I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in

— Ben Okri

You are a mischievous one. You will cause no end of trouble. Ben Okri Picture Quote

You are a mischievous one. You will cause no end of trouble.

— Ben Okri

Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression. Ben Okri Picture Quote

Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.

— Ben Okri

We can redream this world and make the dream come real. Human Ben Okri Picture Quote

We can redream this world and make the dream come real. Human

— Ben Okri

Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases. Ben Okri Picture Quote

Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.

— Ben Okri

Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and Ben Okri Picture Quote

Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and

— Ben Okri

Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way. Ben Okri Picture Quote

Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.

— Ben Okri

This earth that we live on is full of stories in the Ben Okri Picture Quote

This earth that we live on is full of stories in the

— Ben Okri

The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when Ben Okri Picture Quote

The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when

— Ben Okri

I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, Ben Okri Picture Quote

I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets,

— Ben Okri

When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are. Ben Okri Picture Quote

When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.

— Ben Okri

A man’s greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself. Ben Okri Picture Quote

A man’s greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.

— Ben Okri

Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath Ben Okri Picture Quote

Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath

— Ben Okri

The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come Ben Okri Picture Quote

The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come

— Ben Okri

The earliest storytellers were magi, seers, bards, griots, shamans. They were, it Ben Okri Picture Quote

The earliest storytellers were magi, seers, bards, griots, shamans. They were, it

— Ben Okri

Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those Ben Okri Picture Quote

Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those

— Ben Okri

To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something. Ben Okri Picture Quote

To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.

— Ben Okri

I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out Ben Okri Picture Quote

I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out

— Ben Okri

To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home. Ben Okri Picture Quote

To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.

— Ben Okri

I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile. Ben Okri Picture Quote

I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.

— Ben Okri

There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the Ben Okri Picture Quote

There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the

— Ben Okri

Because the best things are always growing in secret. Ben Okri Picture Quote

Because the best things are always growing in secret.

— Ben Okri

I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends’ floors, was happy, was miserable. Ben Okri Picture Quote

I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends’ floors, was happy, was miserable.

— Ben Okri

I was going to be a scientist. Ben Okri Picture Quote

I was going to be a scientist.

— Ben Okri

I went there because of dickens and shakespeare. Ben Okri Picture Quote

I went there because of dickens and shakespeare.

— Ben Okri

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide. Ben Okri Picture Quote

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

— Ben Okri

Our time here is magic! it’s the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful Ben Okri Picture Quote

Our time here is magic! it’s the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful

— Ben Okri

Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible. Ben Okri Picture Quote

Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.

— Ben Okri

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. Ben Okri Picture Quote

Reading, like writing, is a creative act.

— Ben Okri

Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger. Ben Okri Picture Quote

Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.

— Ben Okri

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