A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
CHINUA ACHEBEI think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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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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If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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Nobody can teach me who I am.
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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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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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Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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The world is large,” said Okonkwo. “I have even heard that in some tribes a man’s children belong to his wife and her family.” “That cannot be,” said Machi. “You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.
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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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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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An angry man is always a stupid man.
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When we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
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