The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
Chinua Achebe
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- I don't care about age very much.
- 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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- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.