“Eneke the bird was asked why he was always on the wing and he replied: "Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig."”

—  Chinua Achebe, book Things Fall Apart

Source: Things Fall Apart (1958), Chapter 24 (p. 203)

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