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47 quotes by Ben Okri

Ben Okri OBE FRSL (born 15 March 1959) is a Nigerian poet and novelist. Okri is considered one of the foremost African authors in the post-modern and post-colonial traditions and has been compared favourably to authors such as Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez.
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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.

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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... →

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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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When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than... →

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I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.

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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.

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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... →

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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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At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality is... →

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

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

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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.

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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.

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