31 ordspråk av Ben Okri
Ben Okri
 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. |
| The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell. |
| The greatest religions convert the world through stories. |
| The greatest religions convert the world through stories. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing. |
| 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 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 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 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 worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re dream our world. The fact of possessing imagination means that everything can be re dreamed. Each reality can have it |
| 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 |
| We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings. |
| We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected. |
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