A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
CHINUA ACHEBEOnce you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it’s far removed from your situation.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
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Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it’s far removed from your situation.
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A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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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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The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.
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When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
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If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
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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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The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.
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A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities.
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A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.
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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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