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You see, 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.

~Ben Okri

Topics: Allowed Another Dream Else Everybody Everybody Else Had Interested Keep Kids Knew New New Ones Nigeria See Stories Tell Up Were Would You

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

~Ben Okri

Topics: Floors Friends Happy Homeless Lived Miserable Rough Streets Wits

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I was going to be a scientist.

~Ben Okri

Topics: Going Scientist

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I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.

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Topics: Because Dickens Home Literature London Me Shakespeare

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Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

~Ben Okri

Topics: Art Becomes Hide Magic Nothing

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The greatest religions convert the world through stories.

~Ben Okri

Topics: Convert Greatest Religions Stories Through World

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

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Topics: Bigger Conquer Fear Heart Know Make Stories You

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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.

~Ben Okri

Topics: Artist Failure Fewer Gestures Greater Higher Imagination Secret Tools Will

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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.

~Ben Okri

Topics: Accepted Acknowledged Cannot Dislike Frontiers Given Law Legislators Made Mysteries Police Take Things Wonder World

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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

Topics: Born Came Change Collapsed Got Had Hand Later Left Left-Handed Long Made Other Out Prose Repetitive Right Road Started Stress Syndrome Use Using Very Which Wrist Writing Wrote I Was Born

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Biography

Nationality: Nigerian

Type: Poet

Born: March 15th, 1959

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