My celebration of Ben Okri’s wonderful collection of essays, A Way of Being Free, published in 1997.
I love this book, it’s a poetic and beautiful homage to storytelling, writing, creativity and freedom, presented with a positive spirit of human flourishing and connectivity.
My focus here is a quote from the essay, The Joys of Storytelling 1.
For context I began with these quotes. Quote 1: "Homo fabula: we are storytelling beings." Quote 2: "We are part human, part stories."
Both from Okri's essay, The Joys of Storytelling 3, page 114 of the 1998 Phoenix edition.
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