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More Quotes by Yaşar Kemal
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
War does not decide who is right but who is left.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
