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...a nation could change its way of life, its history, its technology, its art, literature, and culture, but it would never have a real chance to change its gestures.
Orhan Pamuk
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Orhan Pamuk
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 7
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My diary has its own kind of magic. It gives me the feeling of having accomplished something. On days when I don't have time for this, I feel tortured.
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My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.
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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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When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free.
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I certainly see myself more as a craftsman than as an artist.
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The image that I remember most of all is of the Fenerbahçe players storming into the stadium before kickoff. They were called the canaries because of their yellow jerseys. It was as if they, like canaries, were fluttering into the stadium out of a hole. I loved it. It was poetry.
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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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The real choice we have to make is between peace and nationalism.
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I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
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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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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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Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.
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Happiness is laughing together.
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In fact, my entire childhood consisted of looking at photographs in which the viewer sees the ball behind the line, looking through the goal net, and the poor goalkeeper in front of the net.
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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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Morality is probably the last thing one can learn from football.
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As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them
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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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