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An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.

Chinua Achebe

The impatient idealist says: ‘Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.’ But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.
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Earth Existence Ideal Myself Place
If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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Fingering Oneself
Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit — in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.
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Control Freedom Human Religion Spirit Threat
A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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Himself Man Worth
Nobody can teach me who I am.
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Myself Philosophy Teaching
Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.
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Art Conversation Eat Word
A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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Children Milk Mom Pay
Art is man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
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Art Creation Effort Himself Reality
If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Hear Understand Yourself
He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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Brother Fools Treat Worst
Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
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Animal Lying Philosophy
I prefer to go on trying all kinds of things, not to be told, This is the way it is done.
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Adventure Kindness Myself Way
Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
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Break Oneself Wings
It has always been quite apparent to me that no important story can fail to tell us something of value to us.
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Apparent Important Ourselves Quite Value
A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
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Blame Dry Lips Man
A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Debt Decay

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