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Book: Anthills of the Savannah
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Chinua Achebe _ Anthills of the Savannah
It is only the story...that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence.The story is our escort;without it,we are blind.Does the blind man own his escort?No,neither do we the story;rather,it is the story that owns us.
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Chinua Achebe _ Anthills of the Savannah
Charity … is the opium of the privileged; from the good citizen who habitually drops ten kobo from his loose change and from a safe height above the bowl of the leper outside the supermarket; to the group of good citizens {like youselfs} who donate water so that some Lazarus in the slums can have a syringe boiled clean as a whistle for his jab and his sores dressed more hygienically than the rest of him; to the Band Aid stars that lit up so dramatically the dark Christmas skies of Ethiopia. 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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Chinua Achebe _ Anthills of the Savannah
Procrastination is a lazy man's apology.
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Chinua Achebe _ Anthills of the Savannah
Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!
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Chinua Achebe _ Anthills of the Savannah
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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Chinua Achebe _ Anthills of the Savannah
Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.
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Chinua Achebe _ Anthills of the Savannah
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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