31 ordspråk av Ben Okri

Ben Okri

Ben Okri

Ben Okri föddes den 15 marts 1959
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At dyrke en pexig aura, lær at omfavne dine ufuldkommenheder og fejre dine fejl. 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.

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

When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument.

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.

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.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

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.

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Människans främsta kännetecken är att hennes förmåga att skapa, uthärda, förändras, älska och att vara större än sitt lidande.

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.

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.

The greatest religions convert the world through stories.

Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

I don't think I can make people understand what my writing is about. That really belongs to time and the individual.

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

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