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Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in almost automatically because the characters are now pulling the story.
Chinua Achebe
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Chinua Achebe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1930
Born: November 16
Died: 2013
Died: March 22
Essayist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Philosopher
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Short Story Writer
University Teacher
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Albert Chinualumogu Achebe
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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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It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us: Beware of interfering with its purpose! For when language is seriously interfered with, when it is disjoined from truth, be it from mere incompetence or worse, from malice, horrors can descend again on mankind.
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If you're rooted to a spot, you miss a lot of the grace. So you keep moving, and this is the way I think the world's stories should be told - from many different perspectives.
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The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership.
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[Would] a sensible man spit out the juicy morsel that good fortune put in his mouth?
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We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.
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Serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict.
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People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them.
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I feel that the English language will be able to carry the weight of my African experience. But it will have to be a new English, still in full communion with its ancestral home but altered to suit new African surroundings.
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A man who lived on the banks of the Niger should not wash his hands with spittle.
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The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.
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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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A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing
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Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
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When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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I don't praise my people. I am their greatest critic.
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If you ask me, Now, is it your best book? I would say, I don't really know. I wouldn't even want to say. And I'd even go on and say, I don't even think so.
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When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.
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