Chinua Achebe Quotes
When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
Chinua Achebe
Quotes to Explore
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
Adam Mansbach
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It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
Beck
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
Ramez Naam
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
Abe Lemons
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I'm easily entertained.
Abdullah II of Jordan
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
Camryn Manheim
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Rippling, rippling, rippling, like a flapping overlapping of soft flames, soft as feathers, running to points of brilliance, exquisite, exquisite and melting her all molten inside.
D. H. Lawrence
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People need to understand; I may have been very innocent. Didn't understand the devil. Didn't understand any of that. You can only push a child so far. You have laws; number one. And number two; I had been doing this so long, I could say now that I don't want to do something. But after a certain while, they knew when they had pushed their luck with me, and that it was time to, you know, maybe back off.
Linda Blair
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I think that when two people are able to weave that kind of invisible thread of understanding and sympathy between each other, that delicate web, they should not risk tearing it. It is too rare, and it lasts too short a time at best.
M. F. K. Fisher
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The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
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The first meal my husband ever made me was a chicken curry. I have never tasted anything so delicious in my life.
Lesley Nicol
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When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
Chinua Achebe
