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.
CHINUA ACHEBEAfrica is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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There is no story that is not true.
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Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.
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Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities.
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Just think of the work you’ve set yourself to do, and do it as well as you can.
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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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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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One reason why I am quite angry with what is happening in Nigeria today is that everything has collapsed. If I decide to go back now, there will be so many problems – where will I find the physical therapy and other things that I now require?
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If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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We shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the egret perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
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My weapon is literature.
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There is that great proverb – that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
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What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens – whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
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When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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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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