Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The real choice we have to make is between peace and nationalism.
Orhan Pamuk
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Orhan Pamuk
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 7
Academic
Author
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
İstanbul
Pamuk
Ferit Orhan Pamuk
Nationalism
Choice
Choices
Peace
Real
Make
More quotes by Orhan Pamuk
Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.
Orhan Pamuk
I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
Orhan Pamuk
In actuality, we don't look for smiles in pictures of bliss, but rather, for the happiness in life itself. Painters know this, but this is preciously what they cannot depict. That's why they substitute the joy of seeing for the joy of life.
Orhan Pamuk
Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.
Orhan Pamuk
The bloody years of war and all the atrocities in European history have taught the Europeans that secular politics free of religious hatred is mainly a question of peace. This concept is not anchored in the same way in the consciousness of Turks, which has to do with the fact that the secular was forced upon us by the army.
Orhan Pamuk
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.
Orhan Pamuk
My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.
Orhan Pamuk
...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
My religion is complicated. Literature is my true religion. After all, I come from a completely non-religious family.
Orhan Pamuk
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
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
Orhan Pamuk
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.
Orhan Pamuk
I certainly see myself more as a craftsman than as an artist.
Orhan Pamuk
It may not happen in the first instant, but within ten minutes of meeting a man, a woman has a clear idea of who he is, or at least who he might be for her, and her heart of hearts has already told her whether or not she's going to fall in love with him.
Orhan Pamuk
To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much of this is fantasy, and how much is real?
Orhan Pamuk
Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.
Orhan Pamuk
Great changes in the direction of peace have often come from people who were no great advocates of peace to begin with.
Orhan Pamuk
As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them
Orhan Pamuk
We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction
Orhan Pamuk
The urbanized life has lead to the destruction of the legends.
Orhan Pamuk
