Quote by Chinua Achebe
People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, thats t

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, thats the time to do something about it, not when its around your neck. – Chinua Achebe

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Art is mans constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. – Chinua Achebe

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My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel. – Chinua Achebe

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Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively. – Chinua Achebe

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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. – Jorge Luis Borges

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Time will tell us what we did and didnt do. – Harvey Fierstein

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Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone – and hurt them to the bone – you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time. – Dave Van Ronk

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In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time. – Robert Collier

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