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"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to."
"It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see."
Explore more quotes by Ben Okri
"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."
"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."
"The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell."
"We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings."
"Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it."
"I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable."
"The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing."
"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."
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