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What you must accept is that your life is not going to be the same while you are writing.

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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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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Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
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I believe in the complexity of the human story, and that there's no way you can tell that story in one way and say, 'this is it.' Always there will be someone who can tell it differently depending on where they are standing ... this is the way I think the world's stories should be told: from many different perspectives.
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The language of young men is pull down and destroy but an old man speaks of conciliation.
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I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly with something that was called genocide in those days.
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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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No man however great is greater than his people
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He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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Once you have really done all you can, then you can show it to people. But I find this is increasingly not the case with the younger people. They do a first draft and want somebody to finish it off for them with good advice.
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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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Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum... The story is our escort. Without it we are blind... It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle.
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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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It is difficult to express the reality of Ibo society in classical English.
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An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb
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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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The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.
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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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