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“If you aim at the summits, you are an ordinary person; if you aim beyond the summits you are an extraordinary person!”

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Mehmet Murat Ildan is a renowned Turkish writer born on May 16, 1965. His works span various literary forms including novels, essays, and poetry, and have gained widespread popularity among readers. more

“Along the top of the soot-darkened wall of the parking area, barbed wire lay coiled, as though even the littered and unlovely motel lot posed such threat—or value—that it was immediately at war with the rest of the world. For Charlie, this seemed to prove the futility of the dreams presented in the department store windows he had walked by earlier... You could buy a snow blower or a nice wool dress for your wife, but beneath it all people were rats scurrying off to find garbage to eat, another rat to hump, making a nest in broken bricks, and soiling it sourly that one's contribution to the world was only more excrement.”

Void Within

Book:Anything Is Possible

Source: Anything Is Possible

“If you'll excuse a brief history lesson: most people didn't experience 'the sixties' until the seventies. Which meant, logically, that most people in the sixties were still experiencing the fifties--or, in my case, bits of both decades side by side. Which made things rather confusing.”

History Seventies Sixties

Book:The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

“The Summer of Love had already given way to the the winter of Who the f--k are you?”

Seventies Loss Of Innocence

Book:The King of Kings and I: The Greatest Story Ever Kvetched!

Source: The King of Kings and I: The Greatest Story Ever Kvetched!

“If I'm an archangel, you can hide under my wing until the sun comes up”

Drugs Angels Seventies Teenagers Prostitutes Runaways Hustlers Runaway Teens

Book:HSTQ: Fall 2020

Source: HSTQ: Fall 2020

Quote by Mehmet Murat Ildan

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