Ben Okri Quotes & Sayings

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Suggest Revision: The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re dream our world. The fact of possessing imagination means that everything can be re dreamed. Each reality can have it
 
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Suggest Revision: Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
 
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Suggest Revision: The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
 
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Suggest Revision: Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of spirit. The characters of Turgenev are ghetto dwellers. Dickens' characters are Nigerians. Do y
 
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Suggest Revision: I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare. No, let's say Shakespeare and Dickens, to get them in the right order.
 
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Suggest Revision: 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.
 
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Suggest Revision: Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.
 
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Suggest Revision: 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.
 
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Suggest Revision: We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.
 
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Suggest Revision: The greatest stories are those that resonate our beginnings and intuit our endings, our mysterious origins and our numinous destinies, and dissolve them both into one.
 
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