The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.
CHINUA ACHEBEWhen we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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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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When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
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A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.
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A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
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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.
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No man however great is greater than his people.
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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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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don’t always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!
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I don’t like to see mistakes on the typewriter. I like a perfect script. On the typewriter I will sometimes leave a phrase that is not right, not what I want, simply because to change it would be a bit messy.
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As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
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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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It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have – otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.
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