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We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.

Chinua Achebe

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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Audience Beginning Factor Praying Writing
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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Creativity Love Purpose Rule Suffering
When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
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Beginning Education Land Learning Myself People
If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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Inspirational Motivational Writing Yourself
My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered.
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Bone Fall Myself Son
An angry man is always a stupid man.
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Angry Man Stupidity
A goat does not eat into a hen’s stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.
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Friendship Goat Hen Stomach
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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Growth Life Old People Thinking
The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.
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Dance Singing World
It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.
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Direction Neighbor People Story
When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
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Competition Coward Fight Hungry Man See
He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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Brother Fools Treat Worst
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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Fake Myself Religion Story Truth
Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
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Carry Himself Man Wisdom
A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
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Carry Cure Disease Hospital
My weapon is literature.
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Literature Myself Weapon

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.

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