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Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

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The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money. ↗

— Marcel Achard

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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

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Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in almost automatically because the characters are now pulling the story. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

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I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

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And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool. ↗

— Kathy Acker

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In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

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Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

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The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

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Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. ↗

— Dean Acheson

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