My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered.
CHINUA ACHEBEA debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.
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While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
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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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You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.
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People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that’s the time to do something about it, not when it’s around your neck.
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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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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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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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When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
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If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.
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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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Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am – and what I need – is something I have to find out myself.
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The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.
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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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