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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
Proverb
Uneasy
Mentioned
Dry
Bones
Woman
Always

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One reason why I am quite angry with what is happening in Nigeria today is that everything has collapsed. If I decide to go back now, there will be so many problems - where will I find the physical therapy and other things that I now require?
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Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.
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Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don't expect to see it just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room.
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I do not actually see how art, literature can be anything other that being in that domain of trying to tell us, trying to get us to see what is important in our lives.
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As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.
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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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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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This is not pessimism but rather casting a cold eye on things. It is only one man's story, and I think that things will go better, but difficulties exist and nothing is served by hiding them under a poetic veil or under a lyricism of the past. I am against slogans.
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When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
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In such a regime, I say, you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murderer in the chest-without asking to be paid.
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Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.
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In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint.
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What is modesty but inverted pride?
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I'm very primitive I write with a pen.
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You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.
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The writer is often faced with two choices--turn away from the reality of life's intimidating complexity or conquer its mystery by battling with it. The writer who chooses the former soon runs out of energy and produces elegantly tired fiction.
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
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There must be areas in which a particular character does not represent you.
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A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.
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