A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
CHINUA ACHEBEWomen and music should not be dated.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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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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I don’t like to see mistakes on the typewriter. I like a perfect script. On the typewriter I will sometimes leave a phrase that is not right, not what I want, simply because to change it would be a bit messy.
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We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.
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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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I think not just Nigeria but I think the whole of Africa has to turn back to the rural areas and that’s where the majority of the citizens are and that’s where the engine of of development has to be found.
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Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it’s far removed from your situation.
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He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
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A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.
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And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate.
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When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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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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If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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