Chinua Achebe Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

  Chinua Achebe

  Integrity, Stupid, Reality

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Aug 19, 2011

• Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

  Chinua Achebe

  Art, Reality, Men

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Apr 01, 2012

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

  Chinua Achebe

  Reality, Years, Thought Provoking

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Apr 21, 2015

• Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.

  Chinua Achebe

  Reality, Giving, Literature

  Chinua Achebe (2012). “Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays”, p.215, Anchor

• A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

  Chinua Achebe

  Reality, Men, Thought Provoking

• Diversity is not an abnormality but the very reality of our planet. The human world manifests the same reality and will not seek our permission to celebrate itself in the magnificence of its endless varieties. Civility is a sensible attribute in this kind of world we have; narrowness of heart and mind is not.

  Chinua Achebe

  Heart, Reality, Diversity

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Jan 01, 2015

• The reality of today, different as it is from the reality of my society one hundred years ago, is and can be important if we have the energy and the inclination to challenge it, to go out and engage with its peculiarities, with the things that we do not understand. The real danger is the tendency to retreat into the obvious, the tendency to be frightened by the richness of the world and to clutch what we always have understood.

  Chinua Achebe

  Real, Years, Challenges

  Chinua Achebe (2012). “There Was a Country: A Memoir”, p.50, Penguin

• The writer is often faced with two choices--turn away from the reality of life's intimidating complexity or conquer its mystery by battling with it. The writer who chooses the former soon runs out of energy and produces elegantly tired fiction.

  Chinua Achebe

  Running, Writing, Tired

  Chinua Achebe (2012). “There Was a Country: A Memoir”, p.50, Penguin

• It is difficult to express the reality of Ibo society in classical English.

  Chinua Achebe

  Reality, Difficult

  Chinua Achebe, Bernth Lindfors (1997). “Conversations with Chinua Achebe”, p.9, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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