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“This," I thought, "is power! Not to be strong of limb, hard of heart, ferocious, and daring; but kind, compassionate and soft.”
― The Last Man
― The Last Man
“In my view, the biggest challenge for the
writer, within Nigeria or outside it, is to write about the place in a balanced way. What you want to do is take that anger, that fury, that
observation of the suffering of the people, and let it form into something creative within you.
The greatest risk I see is that the fury
might obscure another important part of the story: that Nigeria is livable, that people live well in Nigeria, and in some ways it isn’t all
that different from living anywhere else.”
― Eight Letters to a Young Writer
writer, within Nigeria or outside it, is to write about the place in a balanced way. What you want to do is take that anger, that fury, that
observation of the suffering of the people, and let it form into something creative within you.
The greatest risk I see is that the fury
might obscure another important part of the story: that Nigeria is livable, that people live well in Nigeria, and in some ways it isn’t all
that different from living anywhere else.”
― Eight Letters to a Young Writer
“Know me!’ cried Markheim. ‘Who can do so? My life is but a travesty and slander on myself. I have lived to belie my nature. All men do; all men are better than this disguise that grows about and stifles them. You see each dragged away by life, like one whom bravos have seized and muffled in a cloak.”
― Markheim
― Markheim
“Time had some score of small voices in that shop, some stately and slow as was becoming to their great gar, others garrulous and hurried. All these told out the seconds in an intricate chorus of tickings.”
― Markheim
― Markheim
“Markheim could not refrain from smiling with a kind of bitter triumph, ‘No,’ said he, ‘I will take nothing at your hands; if I were dying of thirst, and it was your hand that put the pitcher to my lips, I should find the courage to refuse. It may be credulous, but I will do nothing to commit myself to evil.’
‘I have no objection to a death-bed repentance,’ observed the visitant.
‘Because you disbelieve their efficacy!’ Markheim cried.
‘I do not say so,’ returned the other, ‘but I look on these things from a different side, and when the life is done my interest falls. The man has lived to serve me, to spread black looks under colour of religion, or to sow tares in the wheat-field, as you do, in q course of weak compliance with desire. Now that he draws so near to his deliverance, he can add but one act of service- to repent, to die smiling, and thus to build up in confidence and hope the more timorous of my surviving followers. I am not so hard a master. Try me. Accept my help.”
― Markheim
‘I have no objection to a death-bed repentance,’ observed the visitant.
‘Because you disbelieve their efficacy!’ Markheim cried.
‘I do not say so,’ returned the other, ‘but I look on these things from a different side, and when the life is done my interest falls. The man has lived to serve me, to spread black looks under colour of religion, or to sow tares in the wheat-field, as you do, in q course of weak compliance with desire. Now that he draws so near to his deliverance, he can add but one act of service- to repent, to die smiling, and thus to build up in confidence and hope the more timorous of my surviving followers. I am not so hard a master. Try me. Accept my help.”
― Markheim
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