But when you’re deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it’s amazing.
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I said: “A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces”. In other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest and say: “I am a tiger”. When you pass where the tiger has walked before, you see the skeleton of the duiker, you know that some tigritude has been emanated there.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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But when you’re deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it’s amazing.
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The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you’re actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
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If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.
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We do not ask the mountain’s aid to crack a walnut.
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I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we’d never smelled the fumes of petroleum.
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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.
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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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What I teach is literary criticism and comparative literature and so on and that’s my function, but from time to time it’s possible for me actually to help a writer. I read something and something strikes me then, I feel I can talk to that writer about it.
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