"When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself."

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Source : Chinua Achebe (1988). “A Man of the People”, p.118, Heinemann

Chinua Achebe

#Men Quotes #Mad Quotes #Naked Quotes

“I loved acting as a kid because I was kind of shy, so it brought me out of myself.”

Source : Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 21, 2007.
“What I got, unconsciously, from admiring Fred Astaire was that he didn't want what he was doing to look difficult. What was difficult, in my opinion, was making it look so genuine, so effortless. I equally have tried to remain unseen on the screen.”
“There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.”

Source : O Pioneers! pt. 2, ch. 4 (1913)
“The most powerful State in the world, which up to now was relatively protected from terrorist violence, is no longer an inviolable sanctuary.”
“I started reading Dickens when I was about 12, and I particularly liked all of the orphan books. I always liked books about young people who are left on their own with the world, and the four children's books I've written feature that very thing: children that are abandoned by their families or running away from their families or ignored by their families and having to grow up quicker than they should, like David Copperfield - having to be the hero of their own story.”
“What we employ in charitable uses during our lives is given away from ourselves; what we bequeath at our death is given from others only, as our nearest relations.”
“Hitoshi: I'll never be able to be here again. As the minutes slide by, I move on. The flow of time is something I cannot stop. I haven't a choice. I go. One caravan has stopped, another starts up. There are people I've yet to meet, others I'll never see again. People who are gone before you know it, people who are just passing through. Even as we exchange hellos, they seem to grow transparent. I must keep living with the flowing river before my eyes. I earnestly pray that a trace of my girl-child self will always be with you. For waving good-bye, I thank you.”
“True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things and the connection of causes, with a view to determining what is good or bad for us in the present, is rather imaginary than real.”

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