My weapon is literature.
CHINUA ACHEBEThe only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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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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A goat does not eat into a hen’s stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.
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When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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In 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.
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
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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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Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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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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If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.
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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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Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.
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Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
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