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Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.

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Orhan Pamuk
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 7
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Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.
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Many great authors of the 19th century wrote under conditions of strict censorship. The great thing about the art of writing a novel, is that you can write about anything. All you have to say is that it's fiction.
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I was at the end of my tether when my first book was published. For eight years I didn't make a penny, I worked so hard, didn't drink, didn't enjoy life.
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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.
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When something explosive is kept hidden away, a tension builds within that must ultimately be released.
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The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.
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Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.
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The image that I remember most of all is of the Fenerbahçe players storming into the stadium before kickoff. They were called the canaries because of their yellow jerseys. It was as if they, like canaries, were fluttering into the stadium out of a hole. I loved it. It was poetry.
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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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It's a great relief for me that no one will ask me anymore: Orhan, when will you get the Nobel Prize?
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Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.
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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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It's very gratifying to me to see my works bringing people closer to my country.
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Turkish football serves the cause of nationalism, but not of the nation.
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All great masters, in their work, seek that profound void within color and outside time.
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And before long , the msuic , the views rushing past the window , my fathers voice and the narrow cobblestone streets all merged into one , and it seemed to me that while we would never find answers to these fundamental questions , it was good for us to ask them anyway . pg. 284
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We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction
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I certainly see myself more as a craftsman than as an artist.
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Painting taught literature to describe.
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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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