The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.
CHINUA ACHEBEA goat does not eat into a hen’s stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.
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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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One reason why I am quite angry with what is happening in Nigeria today is that everything has collapsed. If I decide to go back now, there will be so many problems – where will I find the physical therapy and other things that I now require?
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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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The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.
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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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People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
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What a man does not know is greater than he.
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The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
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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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Just think of the work you’ve set yourself to do, and do it as well as you can.
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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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A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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