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My religion is complicated. Literature is my true religion. After all, I come from a completely non-religious family.
Orhan Pamuk
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Orhan Pamuk
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 7
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Ferit Orhan Pamuk
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The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.
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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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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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Most of the time it's not the Europeans who belittle us. What happens when we look at them is that we belittle ourselves. When we undertake the pilgrimage, it's not just to escape the tyranny at home but also to reach to the depths of our souls. The day arrives when the guilty must return to save those who could not find the courage to leave.
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Hüzün does not just paralyze the inhabitants of Instanbul, it also gives them poetic license to be paralyzed.
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When something explosive is kept hidden away, a tension builds within that must ultimately be released.
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When Turkey began approaching the EU, I wasn't the only one who worried that the dark stain in Turkey's history - or rather the history of the Ottoman Empire - could become a problem one day. In other words, what happened to the Armenians in World War I. That's why I couldn't leave the issue untouched.
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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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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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The urbanized life has lead to the destruction of the legends.
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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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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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After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.
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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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I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well.
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Writing my own diary is the best form of remembrance, but only for my own use. I need these notes it's like an impulse.
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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.
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Ka knew very well that life was a meaningless string of random incidents
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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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The writers secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.
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