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

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Source : FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Apr 21, 2015

Chinua Achebe

#Reality Quotes #Years Quotes #Thought Provoking Quotes

“How sweet war is to such as know it not.”
“The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.”
“Extremes are ever neighbors; 'tis a step from one to the other.”

Source : James Sheridan Knowles (1848). “The Hunchback: A Play in Five Acts. With the Author's Latest Corrections”, p.17
“I love being prayed for! I know that sounds strange, and I've had people ask me if I'm offended when Liberty students pray for me, since they're (usually) praying that I'll see the light and become a born-again Christian. But there's no malice behind it. They simply believe that unsaved people are in trouble, spiritually, and they want to make sure I'm safe from damnation. In a way, given their beliefs about the afterlife, it'd be mean for them NOT to pray for my salvation.”
“I picked up the Joss Stone album, Josh Groban, and the new Norah Jones. I love, love, love Norah.”
“Don't congratulate yourself for baseline integrity.”
“One of the manifestations of depression for me is that I lose my will. And I thereby lose my ability to focus. I don't think I'll ever have the day-to-day consistency in my performance that something like This American Life has. If I'm not depressed and I'm on and I can focus and I can think through something hard and without interruption and without existential emptiness that comes from depression, that gives me - not mania. But I exalt. I exalt in not being depressed.”
“Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium.”

Source : Q & A at the Washington Press Club, delivered 2 June 1998

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