“When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk”
― Things Fall Apart
― Things Fall Apart
“There is no story that is not true.”
― Things Fall Apart
― Things Fall Apart
“Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.”
― Things Fall Apart
― Things Fall Apart
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness.
It was deeper and more intimate that the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth and claw.
Okonkwo’s fear was greater than these. It was not external but lay deep within himself.”
― Things Fall Apart
It was deeper and more intimate that the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth and claw.
Okonkwo’s fear was greater than these. It was not external but lay deep within himself.”
― Things Fall Apart
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