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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.
Orhan Pamuk
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Orhan Pamuk
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 7
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The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver.
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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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Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity.
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Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.
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Many great authors of the 19th century wrote under conditions of strict censorship. The great thing about the art of writing a novel, is that you can write about anything. All you have to say is that it's fiction.
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I sometimes joke that I am the first writer of historical fiction who can look out his window and point to the objects in his novels. I have a view of the entrance to the Bosporus, the old city, Hagia Sophia, the Blue Mosque.
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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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Colour is the touch of the eye, Music to the deaf, A word out of darkness.
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I am proud to be a Turk, and to write in Turkish about Turkey - and to have been translated into about 40 languages. But I don't want to politicize things by dramatizing them.
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All great masters, in their work, seek that profound void within color and outside time.
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Great changes in the direction of peace have often come from people who were no great advocates of peace to begin with.
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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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I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring reality.
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Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere
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Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?
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