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A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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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I'm very primitive I write with a pen.
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What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.
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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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I am against people reaping where they have not sown. But we have a saying that if you want to eat a toad you should look for a fat and juicy one.
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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.
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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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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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When Rimbaud became a slave trader, he stopped writing poetry.
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I couldn't tell you why but now I know a story is in fact where you discover who you are, where a culture discovers what it is and I just think that this is a terribly important place to get into and that I would enjoy it.
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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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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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I think once you have done all you can to a manuscript, let it find its way in the world.
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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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What a man does not know is greater than he.
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My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.
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But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.
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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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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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Children are very fair minded, they really are.
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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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