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Way Quotes by Chinua Achebe
- I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's…
- The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should aim to use…
- 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…
- If you had been poor in your last life I would have asked you to be rich when you come again. But you were rich.…
- Mr. Brown had thought of nothing but numbers. He should have known that the kingdom of God did not depend on large crowds. Our Lord…
- A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness
- Mosquito [...] had asked Ear to marry him, whereupon Ear fell on the floor in uncontrollable laughter. "How much longer do you think you will…
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