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Ben Okri

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I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.


— Ben Okri


#beauty #fighting #get #i #i am

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


— Ben Okri


#friends #happy #homeless #i #lived

I was going to be a scientist.


— Ben Okri


#i #scientist

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


— Ben Okri


#dickens #home #i #literature #london

The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.


— Ben Okri


#absolutely #absolutely not #best #reader #us

The greatest religions convert the world through stories.


— Ben Okri


#greatest #religions #stories #through #world

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


#failure #fewer #gestures #greater #higher

The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.


— Ben Okri


#africa #come #future #how #jazz

To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.


— Ben Okri


#find #home #homeless #i #say

To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.


— Ben Okri


#completely #quite #situations #something #sustain






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Against these analyses Okri has always rejected the categorization of his work as magical realism claiming that this categorization is the result of laziness on the part of critics and likening this categorization to the observation that "a horse. His literary influences include Aesop's Fables Arabian Nights Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

Okri is considered one of the foremost African authors in the post-modern and post-colonial traditions and has been compared favorably with authors such as Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez.

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