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✵ 16. november 1930 – 21. marec 2013
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“There is no story that is not true, […] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.”

Chinua Achebe kniha Things Fall Apart

Varianta: The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.
Zdroj: Things Fall Apart (1958), Chapter 15 (p. 130)
Kontext: "We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true." [said Obierika]
"There is no story that is not true," said Uchendu. "The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others. We have albinos among us. Do you not think that they came to our clan by mistake, that they have strayed from their way to a land where everybody is like them?"

“If you don't like my story, write your own”

Chinua Achebe kniha Things Fall Apart

Varianta: If you don't like someone's story, write your own.
Zdroj: Things Fall Apart

“Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!”

Chinua Achebe kniha Anthills of the Savannah

Zdroj: Anthills of the Savannah

“Charity… is the opium of the privileged.”

Chinua Achebe kniha Anthills of the Savannah

Zdroj: Anthills of the Savannah

“There is no story that is not true.”

Chinua Achebe kniha Things Fall Apart

Zdroj: Things Fall Apart

“When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.”

Varianta: When Suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat left for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

“When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk.”

Chinua Achebe kniha Things Fall Apart

Zdroj: Things Fall Apart (1958), Chapter 2 (p. 14)

“A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.”

Chinua Achebe kniha Things Fall Apart

Zdroj: Things Fall Apart

“The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.”

Chinua Achebe kniha Things Fall Apart

Zdroj: Things Fall Apart (1958), Chapter 1 (p. 11)

“When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.”

Chinua Achebe kniha No Longer at Ease

Zdroj: No Longer at Ease (1960), Chapter 10 (p. 95)