Ben Okri

A Way of Being Free

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  • hawkinsemmahas quoted6 years ago
    We therefore become separated from our true selves. Then even beauty can seem repugnant. Then, we no longer recognise who we are, and we forget what we used to be, what states we sometimes inhabited, what extended moments of awareness. It is those who are scared of reality, of their own truths, of their own histories, those who are secretly sickened by what they have become, who are alarmed by the strange mask-like faces that peer back at
  • Ирина Осипенкоhas quoted3 years ago
    What if by sheer repetition we become the person we most often pretend to be? Does that mean there is no authentic self? Are we made of habits, compressed by time, like layered rocks?
  • Ирина Осипенкоhas quoted3 years ago
    Never move far from the alpha of life.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    He was born in Nigeria, and lives in London.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    He has been a Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge and is an honorary fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature since 1997, he was awarded an OBE in 2001.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    The recipient of many honorary doctorates, he is a vice-president of the English Centre of International PEN and was presented with the Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum for his outstanding contribution to the Arts and cross-cultural understanding in 1995.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    His work has been translated into 26 languages and has won numerous international prizes including the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Africa, the Paris Review Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, the Chianti Ruffino Antico Fattore International Literary Prize and the Premio Grinzane Cavour Prize.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    BEN OKRI has published many books, including The Famished Road, which won the Booker Prize in 1991.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    They have been widely referenced and still remain much quoted online.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    I had been writing these private and public meditations since the eighties.
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