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Letter "B" » Ben Okri Quotes
«To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they»
Author: Ben Okri
| About:
Nations,
Society
| Keywords:
application, demoralised, irresponsible, poison, stories, storyteller, storytellers
«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.»
«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.»
«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.»
«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.»
Author: Ben Okri
| About:
Beginning
| Keywords:
beginnings, dissolve, dissolving, endings, intuit, mysterious, numinous, origins, resonate, resonates
«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.»
«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.»
Author: Ben Okri
| Keywords:
acknowledged, coded, dislike, frontiers, legislate, legislated, legislates, legislator, legislators, mysteries, police
«Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left is your belief in the imagination.»
Author: Ben Okri
«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»
Author: Ben Okri
| About:
Life,
Literature
| Keywords:
African, dickens, dweller, dwellers, Falstaff, for example, ghetto, ghettos, largeness, The characters, Turgenev
«The greatest religions convert the world through stories.»
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