If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
CHINUA ACHEBEIn dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
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An angry man is always a stupid man.
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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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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 a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.
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Women and music should not be dated.
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A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness
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A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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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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When we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
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The impatient idealist says: ‘Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.’ But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.
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People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
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No man however great is greater than his people.
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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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