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If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.

Chinua Achebe

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day.
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Enough Oneself Strength Tradition
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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Eat People Talk Yourself
There is no story that is not true.
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One Liner Story True
It has always been quite apparent to me that no important story can fail to tell us something of value to us.
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Apparent Important Ourselves Quite Value
The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.
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Motivational Shine Stand Sun
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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Oneself Peace People Understand
If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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Hear Understand Yourself
It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.
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Better Brave Coward Live Praise Worth
The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.
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Dance Singing World
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.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Audience Beginning Factor Praying Writing
The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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Damage Repair Time
When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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Brother Death Fight Profit Stranger
An angry man is always a stupid man.
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Angry Man Stupidity
Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
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Design Embrace Generation History Performance Recognition Task
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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Dance Mask Place Stand World Yourself
When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Beginning Education Land Learning Myself People

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