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Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere

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Orhan Pamuk
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 7
Academic
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Essayist
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İstanbul
Pamuk
Ferit Orhan Pamuk
Life
Somewhere
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Beautiful

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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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Love is a sacred silence.
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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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With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceable mementos of a lost world whose every detail figured in the meaning of the whole.
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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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When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free.
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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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Of course in Turkey I'm seen as being on the 'Western' side, criticised by the nationalists, criticised by the communitarians as not belonging. Even, sometimes, criticised for looking at my country through Western eyes. And in the Western media I'm portrayed as belonging to the East.
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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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