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Inspirational Quotes by Chinua Achebe
- The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
- Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have…
- People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
- Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.
- 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…
- A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
- If you don't like someone's story, write your own. If you don't like what somebody says, say what it is you don't like.
- The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.
- We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye…
- Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
- A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
- A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
- No man however great is greater than his people
- If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
- Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
- There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.
- 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…
- There was a saying in Umuofia that as a man danced so the drums were beaten for him.
- When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
- The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership,
- If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
- One would think he never sucked at his mother’s breast.
- Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
- My weapon is literature
- Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
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- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento