Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
by Parker · 12 things on Twos
- Don’t take the easy way. Work like a man
- We shall all live. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me
- A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness
- A man belongs to his fatherland when things are good and life is sweet. But when there is sorrow and bitterness he finds refuge in his motherland. Your mother is there to protect you. And that is why we say that mother is supreme
- Those were the good days when a man had friends in distant clans. Your generation does not know that. You stay at home, afraid of your next-door neighbor
- Never kill a man who says nothing
- There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts
- There is no story that is not true
- I fear for you young people because you do not understand how strong is the bond of kinship. You do not know what it is to speak with one voice
- A mans place was not always there, waiting for him. As soon as he left, someone else rose and filled it. The clan was like a lizard, if it lost its tail it soon grew another
- Only the really great men in the clan were able to do this. He saw clearly the high esteem in which he would be held, and he saw himself taking the highest title in the land
- Everything is possible, but everything is not expedient