Orhan Pamuk Quotes - Page 5

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• I am a highly disciplined person. I get up at seven every morning and, still in my pajamas, sit down at my desk where my checkered ring binders and my fountain pen are ready for use. I try to write two pages every day.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Morning, Writing, Two

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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.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Writing, Remembrance, Needs

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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.

  Orhan Pamuk

  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.

  Orhan Pamuk

  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.

  Orhan Pamuk

  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.

  Orhan Pamuk

  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.

  Orhan Pamuk

  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.

  Orhan Pamuk

  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.

  Orhan Pamuk

  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.

  Orhan Pamuk

  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

  Orhan Pamuk

  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.

  Orhan Pamuk

  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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• With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceable mementos of a lost world whose every detail figured in the meaning of the whole.

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  Father, Everyday, Ordinary

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.312, Faber & Faber

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• Nothing changed in my life since I work all the time," Pamuk said then. "I've spent 30 years writing fiction. For the first 10 years I worried about money and no one asked me how much money I made. The second decade I spent money and no one was asking me about that. And I've spent the last 10 years with everyone expecting to hear how I spend the money, which I will not do.

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  Writing, Years, Fiction

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• I think perhaps it is a generational thing. I talk to younger people and they say, Where is this melancholy city you talk about My Istanbul is a sunny place.

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  Thinking, Istanbul, Cities

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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

  Religious, Literature, Complicated

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Hands, Europe, Needs

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• I have hired a bodyguard, on the recommendation of my friends and the government. It's outrageous, having to live like this.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Government, Recommendations, Bodyguard

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction

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  Stupid, Poor, Distinction

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “Snow”, p.282, Faber & Faber

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• Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Age, Handsome, Made

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.325, Faber & Faber

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• There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well.

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  Talking, Turkeys, Clear

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