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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
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University Teacher
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Albert Chinualumogu Achebe
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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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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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...when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
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I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.
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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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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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When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
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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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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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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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There was a saying in Umuofia that as a man danced so the drums were beaten for him.
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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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There must be areas in which a particular character does not represent you.
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Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
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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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Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig.
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Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can't dance.
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If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.
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