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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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Orhan Pamuk
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 7
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I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.
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Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.
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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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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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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 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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It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people and their emotions closer to my readers, not explain Turkish politics.
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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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For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home.
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Turks have a dismissive phrase: he works like a clerk. I have turned this insult around: I am proud to say that I work like a clerk.
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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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The entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from one room to the next only by exercising our memories and imaginations, but most of us, in our laziness, rarely exercised these capacities, and forever remained in the same room.
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I consider myself a person who comes from a Muslim culture. In any case, I would not say that I'm an atheist. So I'm a Muslim who associates historical and cultural identification with this religion.
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I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well.
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Morality is probably the last thing one can learn from football.
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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 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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Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity.
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The real choice we have to make is between peace and nationalism.
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...the endless repetition of an ordinary miracle.
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