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Wisdom is like a goatskin bag every man carries his own.

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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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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The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.
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Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.
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When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths it is because we see something which you do not see.
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I am not an early-morning person I don't like to get out of bed, and so I don't begin writing at five A.M., though some people, I hear, do. I write once my day has started. And I can work late into the night, also.
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It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.
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Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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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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He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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It is only the story...that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence.The story is our escortwithout it,we are blind.Does the blind man own his escort?No,neither do we the storyrather,it is the story that owns us.
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A man to whom you do a favor will not understand if you say nothing, make no noise, just walk away. You may cause more trouble by refusing a bribe than by accepting it.
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When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.
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...Nothing puzzles God
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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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Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.
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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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If the clan did not exact punishment for an offense against the great goddess, her wrath was loosed on all the land and not just on the offender. As the elders said, if one finger brought oil it soiled all the others.
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A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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What you must accept is that your life is not going to be the same while you are writing.
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