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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
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Albert Chinualumogu Achebe
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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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Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig.
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When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?
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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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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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When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
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I don't praise my people. I am their greatest critic.
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I prefer to go on trying all kinds of things, not to be told, This is the way it is done.
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Do you blame a vulture for perching over a carcass?
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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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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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Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
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I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew that there was something inside me that wanted me to tell who I was, and that would have come out even if I didn't want it.
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The most awful thing about power is not that it corrupts absolutely but that it makes people so utterly boring, so predictable.
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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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We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.
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This is why I find racism impossible, because this is against humanity.
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That we are surrounded by deep mysteries is known to all but the incurably ignorant.
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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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A pen on paper is the ideal way for me. I am not really very comfortable with machines I never learned to type very well.
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