The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
CHINUA ACHEBEStorytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit — in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.
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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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What a man does not know is greater than he.
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Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am – and what I need – is something I have to find out myself.
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit — in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.
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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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Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.
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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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Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.
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Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
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A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
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Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day.
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