When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
CHINUA ACHEBEPeople create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
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He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
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When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
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Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.
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Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
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As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.
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The world is large,” said Okonkwo. “I have even heard that in some tribes a man’s children belong to his wife and her family.” “That cannot be,” said Machi. “You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.
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The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.
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A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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Most writers who are beginners, if they are honest with themselves, will admit that they are praying for a readership as they begin to write. But it should be the quality of the craft, not the audience, that should be the greatest motivating factor.
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have – otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.
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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn’t perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
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