#literature

From what you didn’t say, lies that you did say. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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Pose your questions to people and you will get countless useless answers. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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I travel, always arriving in the same place. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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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. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

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Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds. ↗

— Felix Adler

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We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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When within yourself you find the road, the right road will open. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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He tries to find the exit from himself but there is no door. ↗