The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.
CHINUA ACHEBEEach of my books is different. Deliberately. I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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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.
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Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come.
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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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A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.
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In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn’t perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
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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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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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He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
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When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
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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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Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.
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The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.
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I don’t like to see mistakes on the typewriter. I like a perfect script. On the typewriter I will sometimes leave a phrase that is not right, not what I want, simply because to change it would be a bit messy.
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