Orhan Pamuk Quotes
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Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity.
— Orhan Pamuk
People who make fun of everything can never truly fall in love, nor truly believe in God.
— Orhan Pamuk
I am so fortunate to be red! I'm fiery. I'm strong. I know men take notice of me and that I cannot be resisted.
— Orhan Pamuk
If they spoke, it was in whispers
— Orhan Pamuk
Love is the ability to make the invisible visible and the desire always to feel the invisible in one's midst.
— Orhan Pamuk
Snow reminds Ka of God! But I'm not sure it would be accurate. What brings me close to God is the silence of snow.
— Orhan Pamuk
Only imbeciles are innocent.
— Orhan Pamuk
Enjoyment of football is part of the social context, and I have lost my faith in this social context.
— Orhan Pamuk
Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.
— Orhan Pamuk
I have hired a bodyguard, on the recommendation of my friends and the government. It's outrageous, having to live like this.
— Orhan Pamuk
I told him just so he wouldn't be fooled by the bright lights of Istanbul into thinking that life was somehow easy.
— Orhan Pamuk
Great changes in the direction of peace have often come from people who were no great advocates of peace to begin with.
— Orhan Pamuk
What was venerated as style was nothing more than an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty hand.
— Orhan Pamuk
To know is to remember that you've seen.To see is to know without remembering. Thus painting is remembering the blackness.
— Orhan Pamuk
Although everyone knew it as freedom from the laws of Islam, no one was quite sure what else westernization was good for.
— Orhan Pamuk
The greatest happiness is when the eye discovers beauty where neither then mind conceived of nor the hand intended any.
— Orhan Pamuk
I believe strongly in an author's moral responsibility. But his first obligation is to write good books.
— Orhan Pamuk
If you wanted to buy anything from Ligor, you'd lower a basket from your floor and then shout
— Orhan Pamuk
...love is deep attention, deep compassion...
— Orhan Pamuk
I don't like to make strong statements. I want to write strong novels ... I keep my deep, radical things for my novels.
— Orhan Pamuk
I do not believe in a personal connection to God; that's where it gets transcendental.
— Orhan Pamuk
The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.
— Orhan Pamuk
I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.
— Orhan Pamuk
The fueling of anti-Turkish sentiment in Europe is resulting in an anti-European, indiscriminate nationalism in Turkey.
— Orhan Pamuk
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.
— Orhan Pamuk
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The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western.
— Orhan Pamuk
I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.
— Orhan Pamuk
The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life
— Orhan Pamuk
The snow reminded me of the beauty and mystery of creation, of the essential joy that is life.
— Orhan Pamuk
Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.
— Orhan Pamuk
There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well.
— Orhan Pamuk
Happiness is laughing together...
— Orhan Pamuk
Einstein ... even failed physics once, but he'd never thought of giving up school to make a living.
— Orhan Pamuk
When something explosive is kept hidden away, a tension builds within that must ultimately be released.
— Orhan Pamuk
Contrary to what is commonly believed, all murderers are men of extreme faith rather than unbelievers.
— Orhan Pamuk
I write a world where everyone is partly right.
— Orhan Pamuk
In this night, pure and everlasting, like an old fairy tale, being Turkish felt infinitely better than being poor.
— Orhan Pamuk
Love is good for the skin.
— Orhan Pamuk
The city's more beautiful at night, you know: the people of the night always tell the truth.
— Orhan Pamuk
I like all the disgusting things that are fine just being themselves. What's wrong with a little honest vulgarity?
— Orhan Pamuk
For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home.
— Orhan Pamuk
I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
— Orhan Pamuk
Those who can truly see, know.
— Orhan Pamuk
The first thing I learned at school was that some people are idiots; the second thing I learned was that some are even worse.
— Orhan Pamuk
Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible.
— Orhan Pamuk
This, then, is how we first came across the fearsome secret history of turkey's mannequins.
— Orhan Pamuk
I've never left Istanbul, never left the houses, streets, and neighborhoods of my childhood.
— Orhan Pamuk
If the soulmate is absent there is no need for the soul
— Orhan Pamuk
The sea was as dark as dreams and as deep as sleep
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