Orhan Pamuk Quotes & Sayings
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Despite the loss they were suffering, they'd both relaxed - as people do when they realize they've run out of chances for happiness —
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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. —
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Heaven was the place where you kept alive the dreams of your memories. —
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Only imbeciles are innocent. —
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Enjoyment of football is part of the social context, and I have lost my faith in this social context. —
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The essential reason for my loneliness is that I don't even know where I belong. —
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Morality is probably the last thing one can learn from football. —
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I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular. —
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It's very gratifying to me to see my works bringing people closer to my country. —
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In the beginning the point was not to have a point, to escape the world in which everyone had to have a job, a desk, an office. —
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Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it. —
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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, —
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I have hired a bodyguard, on the recommendation of my friends and the government. It's outrageous, having to live like this. —
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I told him just so he wouldn't be fooled by the bright lights of Istanbul into thinking that life was somehow easy. —
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I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well. —
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If you think you are better than Stork, then by all means, get hold of me. —
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Great changes in the direction of peace have often come from people who were no great advocates of peace to begin with. —
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What was venerated as style was nothing more than an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty hand. —
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To know is to remember that you've seen.To see is to know without remembering. Thus painting is remembering the blackness. —
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It's everywhere," he said. "No matter where you go, it grabs you by the collar. —
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Although everyone knew it as freedom from the laws of Islam, no one was quite sure what else westernization was good for. —
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He could sense the darkness inside him looking for an excuse to manifest itself. —
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The greatest happiness is when the eye discovers beauty where neither then mind conceived of nor the hand intended any. —
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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. —
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I believe strongly in an author's moral responsibility. But his first obligation is to write good books. —
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After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy. —
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If you wanted to buy anything from Ligor, you'd lower a basket from your floor and then shout —
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...love is deep attention, deep compassion... —
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I don't like to make strong statements. I want to write strong novels ... I keep my deep, radical things for my novels. —
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I do not believe in a personal connection to God; that's where it gets transcendental. —
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The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation. —
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Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow. —
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The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver. —
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I read a book one day and my whole life was changed. —
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The urbanized life has lead to the destruction of the legends. —
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The fueling of anti-Turkish sentiment in Europe is resulting in an anti-European, indiscriminate nationalism in Turkey. —
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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. —
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As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them —
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[N]othing is as surprising as life. Except for writing. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the only consolation. —
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I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work. —
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The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western. —
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No one recognises the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it —
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I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning. —
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The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life —
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The snow reminded me of the beauty and mystery of creation, of the essential joy that is life. —
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Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love. —
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There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well. —
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To derive pleasure from a novel is to enjoy the act of departing from words and transforming these things into images in our mind. —
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Happiness is laughing together... —
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Einstein ... even failed physics once, but he'd never thought of giving up school to make a living. —
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The gap between compassion and surrender is love's darkest, deepest region. —
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When something explosive is kept hidden away, a tension builds within that must ultimately be released. —
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Contrary to what is commonly believed, all murderers are men of extreme faith rather than unbelievers. —
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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. —
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Where there's a lot of money to be made, there's also a lot of blood to be spilled. —
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Women kill themselves because they hope to gain something," said Kadife. "Men kill themselves because they've lost hope of gaining anything. —
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I write a world where everyone is partly right. —
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To avoid disappointment in art, one mustn't treat it as a career. —
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In this night, pure and everlasting, like an old fairy tale, being Turkish felt infinitely better than being poor. —
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Sometimes I would see them not as mementos of the blissful hours but as the tangible precious debris of the storm raging in my soul. —
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When we reach the point when our lives take on their final shape as in a novel we can identify our happiest moment selecting it in retrospective —
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It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn't know it. —
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Love is good for the skin. —
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When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free. —
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It's not the content, but the form of thought that counts. —
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The city's more beautiful at night, you know: the people of the night always tell the truth. —
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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. —
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I like all the disgusting things that are fine just being themselves. What's wrong with a little honest vulgarity? —
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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. —
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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 —
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For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home. —
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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west. —
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I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city. —
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Those who can truly see, know. —
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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. —
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The first thing I learned at school was that some people are idiots; the second thing I learned was that some are even worse. —
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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. —
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I believe that it isn't victories but defeats that promote nationalism. —
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Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible. —
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This, then, is how we first came across the fearsome secret history of turkey's mannequins. —
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I've never left Istanbul, never left the houses, streets, and neighborhoods of my childhood. —
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Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space. —
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If the soulmate is absent there is no need for the soul —
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The sea was as dark as dreams and as deep as sleep —
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Big proclamations about honor are really just excuses invented to let people kill each other with a clear conscience. —
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