Chinua Achebe Quotes About Reality

• Una de las pruebas más fehacientes de la integridad es su rotundo rechazo a verse comprometida.

  Chinua Achebe

  Integrity, Stupid, Reality

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Aug 19, 2011

• El arte es el esfuerzo constante del hombre por crear para sí mismo un orden de realidad distinto del que le es dado.

  Chinua Achebe

  Arte, Realidad, Hombres

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Apr 01, 2012

• El daño causado en un año puede tardar a veces diez o veinte años en repararse.

  Chinua Achebe

  Reality, Years, Thought Provoking

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Apr 21, 2015

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

  Chinua Achebe

  Reality, Men, Thought Provoking

• 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

• La diversidad no es una anormalidad, sino la realidad misma de nuestro planeta. El mundo humano manifiesta la misma realidad y no nos pedirá permiso para celebrarse a sí mismo en la magnificencia de sus infinitas variedades. El civismo es un atributo sensato en este tipo de mundo que tenemos; la estrechez de corazón y de mente no lo es.

  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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