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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"Instead of politicians, let the monkeys govern the countries; at least they will steal only the bananas!"
"There is no vacation for a writer! Every moment of his life is work!"
"The remotest place on Earth can sometimes be the most attractive place on Earth especially in times when our belief in humanity is lost!"
"Colourful autumn is a tristful travel to the pale Planet of Melancholy!"
"You need to lose yourself and disappear in the depths of the repetitions? Find a coast and watch the repetitive waves! Soon your mind vanishes away and when your mind disappears you disappear!"
"Your belief is mostly your prison! To discover the world outside your prison, you must first realize the walls surrounding you! Otherwise you shall continue being stuck in the prison of childish tales and fallacious illusions!"
"Yes, looking through the eyes of literature we may talk about the beauty of sadness! But in the eyes of truth, sadness is just saddening; there is no beauty there, only a touching desperation!"
"If you know the art of being happy with simple things, then you know the art of having maximum happiness with minimum effort!"
"I don't look at emails, Internet or newspapers before 1 P.M. I wake at 7 A.M., eat fruit, drink tea or coffee, and read what I've achieved, or not achieved, the previous day. Then I take a shower and work on my next sentence until 1 P.M. After I've done emails and so on, I write again from 3 P.M. until 8 P.M.; then I socialise."
"The greatest happiness is when the eye discovers beauty where neither then mind conceived of nor the hand intended any."
"If not prevented, desertification of the world can one day make the camels as the best and the sole cars of our civilisation!"
"Dogs are happy with few things because they have already observed man who is unhappy with many things!"
"Not only the dead are dead but also those who are deprived of their freedoms are also dead!"
"She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new place, or in young people still open to new influences, still curious about the world because they have not yet been scarred by life."
"You want to feel that you belong to something higher, to something even beyond this universe, then go to the opera!"
"The stone you took away from a beach will long for that beach because it belongs there!"
"When climbing, you don't have to put your foot on every step, jump over some of them! When solving your problems, you don't have to solve each and every one, jump over some of them!"
"Sometimes I would see them not as mementos of the blissful hours but as the tangible precious debris of the storm raging in my soul."
"He quit drinking coffee, and naturally, his brain stopped working."
"When you do your works sincerely, you put wings to your works and then they will fly all over the world on their own!"
"It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past."
"With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceable mementos of a lost world whose every detail figured in the meaning of the whole."
"It is true that prosperity has many close friends; poverty, on the other hand, has only distant watchers!"
"The unhappy people of the known paths must certainly try the unknown paths in their search of happiness!"
"Man is a marble piece; unlike Michelangelo's masterpieces, man is unconsciously carved and imperfectly shaped by the nature!"
"An invitation of a beautiful street is an invitation to walk within a dream!"
"Make walks in the nights to benefit from the education of silence!"
"If a man can say 'My life is more important than my country,' that man has succeeded in freeing himself from the chains of society!"
"Obstacles are real only for those who surrender the obstacles in their minds!"
"No one is ordinary because every person carries the wisdom of his own unique path!"
"A good quote is a beautiful bird! Wherever you meet with it, you will start flying with it!"
"Can you imagine a waveless ocean while there is a big storm outside? And that calm ocean is the ocean of wisdom!"
"Oscar Wilde always makes me smile - with respect and admiration. His short stories prove that it is possible to be both sarcastic, even cynical, but deeply compassionate. Just seeing the cover of one of Wilde's books in a bookshop makes me smile."
"You walk like others? You talk like others? You think like others? Then the world doesn't need you because others are already abundant in the world! Be original!"
"Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing?"
"However hard life is, deep in our hearts we know that it is worth to continue till the end!"
"The fate of the world depends on the triumph of the good people!"
"Like a breakfast time or lunch time, you must have a thinking time! Without eating and thinking we cannot stick to the existence; without them we cannot stay in the port of this universe!"
"There is no such a rule that patience leads to salvation! Patience can lead to salvation or it can lead to disaster. Every inaction or every action is open to all the possibilities!"
"Which gate to enter? Which path to choose? Which stairs to take? Which direction to go? These questions can be very depressive! And sometimes the solution lies in being bold, in being imprudent!"
"The word mother must be replaced with the word extraordinary because they precisely are!"
"What do you see from your window? Mostly the things you have been taught to you! And so your view is poor and so you too! To be rich, let the things which have not been taught to you reach you too!"
"They, like me, like all of us, had, once upon a time, in a past so far away it seemed like heaven, caught by chance a glimpse of an inner essence, only to forget what it was. It was this lost memory that pained us, reduced us to ruins, though still we struggled to be ourselves."
"Watch out when the bad treats you well!"
"If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope."
"What is the meaning of it all, of this...of this world?'Mystery', I heard in my thoughts, or perhaps, 'mercy', but I wasn't certain of either."
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