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He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.

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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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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When a new saying gets to the land of empty men, they lose their heads over it.
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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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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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If you're rooted to a spot, you miss a lot of the grace. So you keep moving, and this is the way I think the world's stories should be told - from many different perspectives.
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When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate
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A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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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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