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What is the thing you want most from me? What can I do to make you love me?' Be yourself,' said Ipek.

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Orhan Pamuk
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 7
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My childhood proved to me that there could be no enjoyment of football without community. But it becomes difficult when this community is having problems with its identity. That's when we experience all possible forms of nationalist exaggeration.
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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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I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring reality.
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Nationalism stems from catastrophes, whether they are caused by earthquakes or lost wars.
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When something explosive is kept hidden away, a tension builds within that must ultimately be released.
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Most of the time it's not the Europeans who belittle us. What happens when we look at them is that we belittle ourselves. When we undertake the pilgrimage, it's not just to escape the tyranny at home but also to reach to the depths of our souls. The day arrives when the guilty must return to save those who could not find the courage to leave.
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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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Colour is the touch of the eye, Music to the deaf, A word out of darkness.
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My diary has its own kind of magic. It gives me the feeling of having accomplished something. On days when I don't have time for this, I feel tortured.
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It may not happen in the first instant, but within ten minutes of meeting a man, a woman has a clear idea of who he is, or at least who he might be for her, and her heart of hearts has already told her whether or not she's going to fall in love with him.
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I certainly see myself more as a craftsman than as an artist.
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If Turkey become a member of the EU, of course Turks would lose a part of this identity, just as Europe would lose a part of its own. It would also be a different Europe then. Accepting Turkey into the EU is an ambitious political endeavor of historical proportions. Europe would become a strong, multi-religious unit.
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We live but for a short time, we see but very little, and we know almost nothing so, at least, let's do some dreaming. Have yourself a very good Sunday, my dear readers.
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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
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The writers secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.
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The real choice we have to make is between peace and nationalism.
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Istanbul is certainly in the process of transforming itself into an attractive cultural, tourist and financial center. But there are also millions of sad stories in this giant sea of immigration, poverty, misery and contradictions. So much anger, frustration and fury.
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