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Quotes from The Palm-Wine Drinkard — Amos Tutuola

1920–1997 Nigeria

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11 quotes

Are not thousands of these heroes still roaming about Lagos and the Provinces in search of the wherewithals of life?

The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952)

The expression of the life-force which forms one’s personality, and which remains even in the deads after they have become non-living.

The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952)

By and by, this lady followed the Skull to his house, and the house was a hole in the ground.

The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952)

ZURRJIR’ which means a son who would change himself into another thing very soon.

The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952)

The brave new world that they had fought for had very easily faded into a rotten world of unemployment and frustration.

The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952)

Because everything that they were doing there was incorrect to alives and everything that all alives were doing was incorrect to deads too” (Palm-Wine Drinkard.

The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952)

I was a palm-wine drinkard since I was a boy of ten years of age. I had no other work more than to drink palm-wine in my life.

The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952)

When there was no palm-wine for me to drink I started to drink ordinary water which I was unable to taste before, but I did not satisfy with it as palm-wine.

The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952)

This old man was not really a man, he was a god and he was eating with his wife when I reached there . . . I myself was a god and juju-man.

The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952)

So, I saved the lady from the complete gentleman in the market who afterwards reduced to a "Skull" and the lady became my wife since that day. This is how I got a wife.

The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952)

Old people were saying that the whole people who had died in this world, did not go to heaven directly, but they were living in one place somewhere in this world. So that I said I would find out where my palm-wine tapster who had died was.

The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Amos Tutuola (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.