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.
CHINUA ACHEBEWe cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.
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Each of my books is different. Deliberately. I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.
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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.
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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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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 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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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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A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.
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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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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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When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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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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I am against people reaping where they have not sown. But we have a saying that if you want to eat a toad you should look for a fat and juicy one.
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Women and music should not be dated.
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