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1 " No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer. "
― Mehmet Murat ildan , The Beggar's Prophecy
2 " My kingdom not for a horse, but for a good piece of advice! "
3 " A cock should always know his limits and never have his eyes on the big heights like an eagle! "
4 " I only want to remind you what weak creatures human beings are. Even people who seem to have wills of steel have serious weaknesses! At those moments of weakness, will power breaks into a thousand pieces. "
5 " The only way to survive among the evil and corrupt people is to be even more wicked and more corrupt than they are! "
6 " Don’t forget that birds with broken wings walking on the ground were once flying high up in the sky. "
7 " To life! There can never be anything more important than life! To life, my friends! "
8 " Typewriter keys can’t be blamed because of what has been typed on the typewriter; the one who committed the crime is the one who used the typewriter; the one who typed on the keyboard! "
9 " Being a playwright, a film producer, a minister, a general; these are all masks one wears over one’s face in the society; masks don’t mean anything, for a man is what he is! "
10 " That wretched alchemist called money can turn a man’s heart into a stone! "
11 " Once one seizes happiness, one should hang onto it like an octopus. "
12 " May God bequeath everyone the gift of listening to the voice of their conscience! "
13 " To delete our memory to zero! A completely new life! . . This is a fantastic idea! "
14 " The writer is a kind of hawk; he goes round in the skies, constantly looking with his sharp eyes for the character that he can pick up with his claws. Sometimes he goes round hungry for a week, he cannot catch any characters; and sometimes characters rain on him like heavy rain. "
15 " A writer should show the silver in his hands neither as bronze nor as gold; the gist of the matter is to show silver as silver. "