Cyprian Ekwensi quotes

Cyprian Ekwensi quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“How the city attracts all types and how the unwary must suffer from ignorance of its ways.”
-- Cyprian Ekwensi

#Ignorance Quotes #Cities Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.”
“There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.”
“Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.”

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“Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting. Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but it can also force you to confront the depth of your ignorance and the hugeness of the task. That's OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.”
“I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.”
“To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.”
“Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.”
“Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.”
“A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.”
“To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery ...”

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