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More Quotes by Yaşar Kemal
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.
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
Don't lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize.
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
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.
The person I miss most is the one I could have been.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
