Quotes by Chinua Achebe

"I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life."

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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."

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"The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience."

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

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"When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day."

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