Chigozie Obioma quotes

That story, as all good stories, planted a seed in my soul and never left me. (Chigozie Obioma)
Listen, days decay, like food, like fish, like dead bodies. This night will decay, too and you will forget. Listen, we will forget. View quote
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Do you not know that there is nothing the eye can see that can make it shed the tears of blood? Do you not know that there is no loss we cannot overcome. View quote
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I have now come to know that what one believes often becomes permanent, and what become permanent can be indestructible. View quote
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Hatred is a leech: The thing that sticks to a person's skin; that feeds off them and drains the sap out of one's spirit. It changes a person, and does not leave until it has sucked the last drop of peace from them. View quote
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There are some rhetorical moves that I wouldn't be able to make if I didn't know these languages. In terms of writing figurative language, I probably pull a lot from Yoruba imagery... View quote
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I'd heard someone say that the end of most things often bears a resemblance - even if faint - to their beginnings. View quote
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I believe that some of the strongest stories we can have begin with very simple archetypes...The great mother, or the great father, for example. And you work your way from that, slowly, to more complexity. The idea of this guy who wants to be with the woman he loves – you can say the same of the movie Gladiator, for instance. If you strip everything down to the basics, it's just about Maximus wanting to go back to his wife and every other thing stopping him. Even Homer's Odyssey; he just wants to go back and the entire universe is conspiring against that ambition. View quote
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Mother was a falconer. The one who stood on the hills and watched, trying to stave off whatever ill she perceived was coming to her children. She owned copies of our minds in the pockets of her own mind and so could easily sniff troubles early in their forming, the same way sailors discern the forming foetus of a coming storm. View quote
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