As a rule I don’t like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely.
CHINUA ACHEBEMy weapon is literature.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
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If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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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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We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.
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A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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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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Just think of the work you’ve set yourself to do, and do it as well as you can.
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Women and music should not be dated.
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The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
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Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum… The story is our escort. Without it we are blind… It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle.
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While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
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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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