"The novels I love, the ones I remember,……" — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
"The novels I love, the ones I remember, the ones I re-read, have an empathetic human quality, or 'emotional truth'. This quality is difficult to fully define, but I always recognise it when I see it: it is different from honesty and more resilient than fact, something that exists not in the kind of fiction that explains but in the kind that shows."
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111 Quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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