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More Quotes by Yaşar Kemal
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
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.
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
