Orhan Pamuk Quotes - Page 5

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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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  Children, Writing, Needs

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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?"

  Orhan Pamuk

  Relief, Nobel, Ask Me

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Football can teach us that although a team's individual players may be weak, it can still be successful if it uses common sense. Or that we should not attack anyone physically when we suffer a depressing defeat.

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  Football, Depressing, Team

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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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.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Snow, Silence, Would Be

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “Snow”, p.62, Faber & Faber

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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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  Views, Voice, Political

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• I was at the end of my tether when my first book was published. For eight years I didn't make a penny, I worked so hard, didn't drink, didn't enjoy life.

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  Book, Hard Work, Commitment

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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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  Giving Up, Hero, Want

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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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  Poetic License, Giving, Doe

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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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  Giving, Feelings, Magic

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• The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.

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  Mistake, Believe, Army

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• It was in Cihangir that i first learned Istanbul was not an anonymous multitude of walled-in lives - a jungle of apartments where no one knew who was dead or who was celebrating what - but an archipelago of neighbourhoods in which everyone knew each other.

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  Istanbul, Firsts, Celebrate

  FaceBook post by Orhan Pamuk from Jun 11, 2016

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• East and West are coming together. Whether in peace or anarchy - they are coming together. There needn't be a clash between East and West, between Islam and Europe.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Europe, Islam, Together

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I work seven days a week, from 9 in the morning till 8 at night. I have the titles of the next eight novels I want to write. I feel myself pitiable, degraded on a day that I don't write.

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  Morning, Hard Work, Writing

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• The sight of snow made her think how beautiful and short life is and how, in spite of all their enmities, people have so very much in common; measured against eternity and the greatness of creation, the world in which they lived was narrow. That's why snow drew people together. It was as if snow cast a veil over hatreds, greed, and wrath and made everyone feel close to one another. -- Snow pg 119

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  Beautiful, Short Life, Greatness

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• Clocks and calendars do not exist to remind us of the Time we've forgotten but to regulate our relations with others and indeed all of society, and this is how we use them.

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  Use, Calendars, Forgotten

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.395, Faber & Faber

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• Turkey, with its political intolerance, as I have described it, is prepared to march forward, to break with its taboo about the Armenians, and is making great strides with respect to human rights and freedom of speech so that it can join the European Union. This alone shows how powerful the European idea is.

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  Powerful, Rights, Turkeys

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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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  Atheist, Historical, Culture

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another's heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known? Even if the world's rich and powerful were to put themselves in the shoes of the rest, how much would they really understand the wretched millions suffering around them? So it is when Orhan the novelist peers into the dark corners of his poet friend's difficult and painful life: How much can he really see?

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  Crush, Pain, Powerful

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “Snow”, p.266, Faber & Faber

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• I do not believe in a personal connection to God; that's where it gets transcendental.

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  Believe, Connections, Transcendental

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Ka found it very soothing: for the first time in years, he felt part of a family. In spite of the trials and responsibilities of what was called 'family', he saw now the joys of its unyielding togetherness, and was sorry not to have known more of it in his life.

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  Sorry, Responsibility, Years

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• As always after drinking too much, I felt like my own ghost trying to take it's first solo walk outside the body.

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  Drinking, Trying, Body

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.159, Faber & Faber

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• I very much enjoy reading other writers' diaries, mainly because it makes me ask myself: Are they like you? How do they think?

  Orhan Pamuk

  Reading, Thinking, Diaries

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• And before long , the msuic , the views rushing past the window , my fathers voice and the narrow cobblestone streets all merged into one , and it seemed to me that while we would never find answers to these fundamental questions , it was good for us to ask them anyway . pg. 284

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  Father, Past, Views

  Orhan Pamuk (2017). “Istanbul (Deluxe Edition): Memories and the City”, p.366, Knopf

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• When you love a city and have explored it frequently on foot, your body, not to mention your soul, gets to know the streets so well after a number of years that in a fit of melancholy, perhaps stirred by a light snow falling ever so sorrowfully, you'll discover your legs carrying you of their own accord toward one of your favourite promontories

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  Fall, Light, Years

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “My Name Is Red”, p.11, Faber & Faber

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• Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don't feel like the Devil.

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  Book, Devil, Firsts

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “My Name Is Red”, p.430, Faber & Faber

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