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