Chinua Achebe - Anthills of the Savannah (1987)

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Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left is the graveyard of creativity.

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That we are surrounded by deep mysteries is known to all but the incurably ignorant.

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While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

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Whatever you are is never enough; you must find a way to accept something however small from the other to make you whole.

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Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit — in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.

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In the vocabulary of certain radical theorists contradictions are given the status of some deadly disease to which their opponents alone can succumb. But contradictions are the very stuff of life. If there had been a little dash of contradiction among the Gadarene swine some of them might have been saved from drowning.

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Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum... The story is our escort. Without it we are blind... It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle...

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The most awful thing about power is not that it corrupts absolutely but that it makes people so utterly boring, so predictable.

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The women are, of course, the biggest single group of oppressed people in the world and, if we are to believe the Book of Genesis, the very oldest.

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