If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
CHINUA ACHEBEIt 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.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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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 child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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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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An angry man is always a stupid man.
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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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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
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No man however great is greater than his people.
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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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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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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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Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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Art is man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
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The impatient idealist says: ‘Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.’ But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.
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