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  • #1
    Pablo Picasso
    “We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.”
    Pablo Picasso

  • #2
    Oscar Wilde
    “There is no sin except stupidity.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

  • #3
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #4
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #5
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #6
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #7
    J.K. Rowling
    “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #8
    Albert Einstein
    “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #9
    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #10
    Chinua Achebe
    “To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.”
    Chinua Achebe

  • #11
    Chinua Achebe
    “Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.”
    Chinua Achebe (Author)

  • #12
    Chinua Achebe
    “There is no story that is not true.”
    Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart

  • #13
    Chinua Achebe
    “My weapon is literature

    Chinua Achebe

  • #14
    Chinua Achebe
    “People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.”
    Chinua Achebe

  • #15
    Chinua Achebe
    “...Nothing puzzles God”
    Chinua Achebe, Girls at War and Other Stories

  • #16
    Chinua Achebe
    “When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.”
    Chinua Achebe, No Longer at Ease

  • #17
    Chinua Achebe
    “I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different colour, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.”
    Chinua Achebe



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