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There is no story that is not true.

Chinua Achebe

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 child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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Children Milk Mom Pay
If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own. If you don’t like what somebody says, say what it is you don’t like.
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Expression Feeling Story Talk
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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Change Mistake Myself Perfection Script See Simplicity
As a rule I don’t like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely.
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Creativity Love Purpose Rule Suffering
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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Development Finding Rural Thinking
My weapon is literature.
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Literature Myself Weapon
The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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Damage Repair Time
If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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Fingering Oneself
Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
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Carry Himself Man Wisdom
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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Oneself Peace People Understand
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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Description Finding Myself Need Teaching
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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Himself Man Trouble
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Wisdom
Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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Charity Opium Privilege
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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Direction Neighbor People Story

There is no story that is not true.

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