“Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.”
Source: Things Fall Apart
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Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic 1930–2013Related quotes
“A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.”
- Chinese proverb”
“As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks…”
'A Blizzard of Tiny Kisses'
Essays and reviews, From the Land of Shadows (1982)
“.. [that] the overturning of the old world of arts will be etched across your 'palms”
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admonition from the cover of Malevich's 'novykh sistemakh v iskusstve' (Vitebsk: Unovis, 1919); the cover is reproduced in Malevich: Suprematism and Revolution in Russian Art, Larissa A. Zhadova, (trans. Alexander Lieven); London: Thames and Hudson, 1982
the notice on the verso reads: 'Work and edition by the workshop [artef] of artistic labor at the Vitebsk Svomas'
1910 - 1920
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 164
“Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.”
1776
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
“The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.”
Source: Selected Essays, 1778-1830
Considerations by the Way
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)