Ben Okri Quotes

We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing. It was the strangest thing. Her passing away ripped the solidity out of the world.

Ben Okri

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: nigerian
  • Birth: March 15, 1959

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I very rarely use a credit card, but I do if I know I have big bills coming and I need to stagger payment.

Andrea McLean

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Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.

Robert Pinsky

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I also absolutely admire Priyanka Chopra; she can inspire me even when I am having the greyest of days.

Mawra Hocane

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I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your life.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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You tell me that 'Date Night' was good? I'm not going to see it. I will debate you on it, having no knowledge of the footage in the film. I was next to someone on the plane watching it, and they were dozing off.

Andy Kindler

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The problem with cyber weapons for a country like ours is the ability to control them.

Michael Hayden

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Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.

John Steinbeck

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We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.

An Wang

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There's no blueprint; getting married doesn't make you boring, having kids doesn't make you boring, having money doesn't necessarily have to make you boring.

Amanda Palmer

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I tell people I'm on a diet. If somebody sees me with a muffin, they'll think I'm off my diet. It's like secret little police that I've made for myself.

Stephen Furst

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The one fiction show I watch is 'Hannibal.' I love it!

Sophie Turner

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Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be.

Shimon Peres

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