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It was in Cihangir that i first learned Istanbul was not an anonymous multitude of walled-in lives - a jungle of apartments where no one knew who was dead or who was celebrating what - but an archipelago of neighbourhoods in which everyone knew each other.

Orhan Pamuk

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Orhan Pamuk
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 7
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