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"If you feel obsessed to prove something to the world, then you'd need world attention to be able to prove it."
"You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing."
"When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention."
"I was always jealous of something getting more attention."
"Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been put up to a critic."
"If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance."
"Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive."
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 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."
"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."
"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 went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare."
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