If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
CHINUA ACHEBE
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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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If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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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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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
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Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am – and what I need – is something I have to find out myself.
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Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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An angry man is always a stupid man.
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People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
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A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
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The world is large,” said Okonkwo. “I have even heard that in some tribes a man’s children belong to his wife and her family.” “That cannot be,” said Machi. “You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.
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A goat does not eat into a hen’s stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.
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Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
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