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Chinua Achebe Quotes about Reality

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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

Chinua Achebe
Integrity, Stupid, Reality
FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Aug 19, 2011

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

Chinua Achebe
Reality, Men, Thought Provoking

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

Chinua Achebe
Reality, Years, Thought Provoking
FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Apr 21, 2015

Diversity is not an abnormality but the very reality of our planet. The human world manifests the same reality and will not seek our permission to celebrate itself in the magnificence of its endless varieties. Civility is a sensible attribute in this kind of world we have; narrowness of heart and mind is not.

Chinua Achebe
Heart, Reality, Diversity
FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Jan 01, 2015

Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.

Chinua Achebe
Reality, Giving, Literature
Chinua Achebe (2012). “Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays”, p.215, Anchor

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

Chinua Achebe
Art, Reality, Men
FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Apr 01, 2012

It is difficult to express the reality of Ibo society in classical English.

Chinua Achebe
Reality, Difficult
Chinua Achebe, Bernth Lindfors (1997). “Conversations with Chinua Achebe”, p.9, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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