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Let me start on why I started writing. I can't give any definite answer apart from the fact that I felt the urge to write.

— Gabriel Okara

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"Without money I can't find him. Money is everything in Sologa."

The Voice (1964)

"It is bad money. Bad money never brings good to anyone."

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"A dead man's shadow has entered this house."

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"I have already told you. Be sensible and be a good lad. This country will need men like you, if only you learn to shut your eyes at certain things."

The Voice (1964)

"I have not the big thing between us forgotten. You will of my doings hear concerning it."

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Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
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William Wordsworth Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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