Orhan Pamuk Quotes
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Orhan Pamuk Famous Quotes & Sayings
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My fear, which I shared with everyone in the Turkish secular bourgeoisie, was not of God but of the fury of those who believed in Her too much.
What is the thing you want most from me? What can I do to make you love me?'
Be yourself,' said Ipek.
Be yourself,' said Ipek.
What we essentially want is to draw something unknown to us in all its shadowiness, not something we know in all its illumination.
Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
What makes the marvellous is its peculiar way of being ordinary; what makes the ordinary is its peculiar way of being marvellous.
My dark beloved, my troubled hero, were you unable to sleep for thinking of me the whole night? Is that why the blush has left your face?
Writing my own diary is the best form of remembrance, but only for my own use. I need these notes; it's like an impulse.
My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.
Try to discover who I am from my choice of words and colors, as attentive people like yourselves might examine footprints to catch a thief.
Love is the ability to make the invisible visible and the desire always to feel the invisible in one's midst.
Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.
The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.
Life can't be all that bad,' i'd think from time to time. 'Whatever happens, i can always take a long walk along the Bosphorus.
Am sometimes hard-pressed to explain why I've stayed, not only in the same place but in the same building.
It's a great relief for me that no one will ask me anymore: "Orhan, when will you get the Nobel Prize?"
In a city where men are killing each other like animals just to make it a happier place, who has the right to stop me from killing myself?
The waiting was torture, the worst Ka had ever known. It was this pain, this deadly wait, he now remembered, that had made him afraid to fall in love.
We read novels because we want to see the world through other experiences, other beings, other eyes, other cultures.
Happiness means being close to the one you love, that's all. (Taking immediate possession is not necessary.)
My religion is complicated. Literature is my true religion. After all, I come from a completely non-religious family.
As always after drinking too much, I felt like my own ghost trying to take it's first solo walk outside the body.
I do know this much though: If a man resorts to wiles, guile and petty deceptions, it means he's nowhere near being in love.
Turks have a dismissive phrase: he works like a clerk. I have turned this insult around: I am proud to say that I work like a clerk.
What is it to be a color? Color is the touch of the eye, music to the deaf, a word out of the darkness.
When there is not a breath of wind, the waters sometimes shudder as if from inside and take on the finish of washed silk.
I asked him about his enemies. He began to count them. The list went on and on ... - Conversations with Yahya Kemal
A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is.
It was as if he were in a place that the whole world had forgotten; as if it were snowing at the end of the world.
I read somewhere that luck is not blind, just illiterate. Luck, I mused, is a palliative for those who don't know probability and statistics.
I like all the disgusting things that are fine just being themselves. What's wrong with a little honest vulgarity?
A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.
A person could wish for one thing and speak of another, and their fate, their kismet, was the thing that could bring the two together. Even
The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns in a political game.
But I think it must be easier for a girl to marry someone she doesn't know, because the more you get to know men, the harder it is to love them.
When something explosive is kept hidden away, a tension builds within that must ultimately be released.
There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well.
Contrary to what is commonly believed, all murderers are men of extreme faith rather than unbelievers.
When I was publishing my first books, the previous generation of authors was fading away, so I was welcomed because I was a new author.
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.
'Mystery', I heard in my thoughts, or perhaps, 'mercy', but I wasn't certain of either.
I don't like to make strong statements. I want to write strong novels ... I keep my deep, radical things for my novels.
To know is to remember that you've seen.To see is to know without remembering. Thus painting is remembering the blackness.
The fueling of anti-Turkish sentiment in Europe is resulting in an anti-European, indiscriminate nationalism in Turkey.
Despite the loss they were suffering, they'd both relaxed - as people do when they realize they've run out of chances for happiness
The greatest happiness is when the eye discovers beauty where neither then mind conceived of nor the hand intended any.
Sometimes I wonder what my interior actually is. A heart that goes pitter-patter and thoughts that glide by like little paper boats on flowing water,
I told him just so he wouldn't be fooled by the bright lights of Istanbul into thinking that life was somehow easy.
I have hired a bodyguard, on the recommendation of my friends and the government. It's outrageous, having to live like this.