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

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Ben Okri

#Home Quotes #Literature Quotes #London Quotes

“A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.”
“Craigslist does serve as a platform where people help each other for the basics, and also, shows people that the Internet is good for mutual support. I do feel pretty good about that.”
“Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.”
“If it were possible to hold onto this sort of database and really be assured that only good guys get access to it, we might have a different discussion. Unfortunately, we don't know how to build systems that work that way. We don't know how to do this without creating a big target and a big vulnerability.”
“giving the utmost of herself to three absorbing interests [marriage, motherhood, career] ... was a problem for a superwoman, and a job for a superwoman, and only some such fabled being could have accomplished it with success.”
“When objects shattered into fragments appeared in my painting about 1909, this for me was a way of getting closest to the object... Fragmentation helped me to establish space and movement in space.”

Source : "Braque". Book by Edwin Mullins, Thames and Hudson, p. 55, 1968.
“Even if kids don't love gymnastics, if they start at any age with some classes, they can learn so many different things - they can build a lot of character, strength, flexibility, and courage. Hopefully, they can also develop a sense of fearlessness.”
“Just as the ideal of classic Greek culture was the most perfect harmony of mind and body, so a human and a bicycle are the perfect synthesis of body and machine.”

Source : Richard Ballantine, Richard Grant (1998). “Ultimate Bicycle Book”, Willowdale, Ont. : Firefly Books

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