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We had no desire to live in Istanbul, nor in Paris or New York. Let them have their discos and dollars, their skycrapers and supersonics transports. Let them have their radios and their color TV, hey, we have ours, don't we? But we have something they don't have. Heart. We have heart. Look, look how the light of life seeps into my very heart

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Orhan Pamuk
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 7
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Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe.
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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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I certainly see myself more as a craftsman than as an artist.
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Ka knew very well that life was a meaningless string of random incidents
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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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When something explosive is kept hidden away, a tension builds within that must ultimately be released.
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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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I am a highly disciplined person. I get up at seven every morning and, still in my pajamas, sit down at my desk where my checkered ring binders and my fountain pen are ready for use. I try to write two pages every day.
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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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Now everyone is prouder and poorer
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I sometimes joke that I am the first writer of historical fiction who can look out his window and point to the objects in his novels. I have a view of the entrance to the Bosporus, the old city, Hagia Sophia, the Blue Mosque.
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In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time.
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I need a moment of time for myself every day, like a child playing with his things. When I travel, I routinely find a quiet place, open my diary and write something in it.
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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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My religion is complicated. Literature is my true religion. After all, I come from a completely non-religious family.
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The past is always an invented land.
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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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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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I'm a relatively disciplined writer who composes the whole book before beginning to execute and write it. Of course, you can't hold - you cannot imagine a whole novel before you write it there are limits to human memory and imagination. Lots of things come to your mind as you write a book, but again, I make a plan, chapter, know the plot.
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