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Quotes from "Beggar's Prophecy"
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These are quotes from the theatre play "Beggar's Prophecy" by contemporary Turkish author Mehmet Murat ildan.
| 1. | For an apple you can’t reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won’t bend down for you! |
| 2. | That wretched alchemist called money can turn a man’s heart into a stone! |
| 3. | My kingdom not for a horse, but for a good piece of advice! |
| 4. | Walking does good to the fat and giving alms does good to the sinners; these both make one feel lighter! |
| 5. | There are only two kinds of people who do not commit any sins: Unborn human beings and dead human beings! |
| 6. | 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! |
| 7. | Think of people like bottles full of a liquid inside but without labels; smell the bottle, pour out what is inside and study it carefully. Never mind the labels; pretend that they don’t exist! Labels are misleading! |
| 8. | A cock should always know his limits and never have his eyes on the big heights like an eagle! |
| 9. | The only way to survive among the evil and corrupt people is to be even more wicked and more corrupt than they are! |
| 10. | 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. |
| 11. | For God must have more important universal matters to attend to than keeping himself busy with us, people! God is not interested in local matters! |
| 12. | No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer. |
| 13. | 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. |
| 14. | 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. |
| 15. | Once one seizes happiness, one should hang onto it like an octopus. |
| 16. | To delete our memory to zero! A completely new life! . . This is a fantastic idea! |
| 17. | 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! |
| 18. | To life! There can never be anything more important than life! To life, my friends! |
| 19. | May God bequeath everyone the gift of listening to the voice of their conscience! |
Lister:
summernight
Source:
Beggar's Prophecy Play
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