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There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.

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
Poet
Short Story Writer
University Teacher
Writer
Albert Chinualumogu Achebe
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I find Nigeria very frustrating. I am not alone in this. There are many Nigerians abroad. As you know, the brain drain is just incredible. And when we talk to one another and there is a certain sense of frustration and but I struggle not to let the frustration degenerate into dispair.
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When Rimbaud became a slave trader, he stopped writing poetry.
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I don't praise my people. I am their greatest critic.
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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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There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me to add to that huge number of people writing here when there are so few people writing about somewhere else.
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Unless I'm writing in the Igbo language, I use a language developed elsewhere, which is English. That affects the way I write. It even affects to some extent the stories I write.
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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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I don't care about age very much.
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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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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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