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Orhan Pamuk
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 7
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İstanbul
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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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Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity.
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Colour is the touch of the eye, Music to the deaf, A word out of darkness.
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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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When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free.
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East and West are coming together. Whether in peace or anarchy - they are coming together. There needn't be a clash between East and West, between Islam and Europe.
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The real choice we have to make is between peace and nationalism.
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More than anything I am a novelist. But for me, an author's job is not only to create linguistically accomplished works. As an author I also want to stimulate discussion.
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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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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.
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Turkish football serves the cause of nationalism, but not of the nation.
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The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.
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My religion is complicated. Literature is my true religion. After all, I come from a completely non-religious family.
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To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much of this is fantasy, and how much is real?
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I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well.
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It's very gratifying to me to see my works bringing people closer to my country.
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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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All great masters, in their work, seek that profound void within color and outside time.
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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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Now everyone is prouder and poorer
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