Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
CHINUA ACHEBEIt is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have – otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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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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Women and music should not be dated.
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My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered.
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There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.
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No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.
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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 old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.
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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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If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’ If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’ But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.
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Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
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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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The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.
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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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Nobody can teach me who I am.
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The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.
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