Goodreads Quote of the Day for Sunday

Created: 2014-11-16 12:40 Updated: 2014-11-16 12:40 Notebook: Famous Quotes

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

Chinua Achebe

Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe (born November 16, 1930) almost lost his iconic novel, Things Fall Apart, before it was published. In 1957 he sent his handwritten manuscript to a London typing service and didn't hear back for months. When a Nigerian colleague traveled to London, she stopped by the offices and found it abandoned in a corner. It was his only copy.


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