Orhan Pamuk Quotes - Page 6

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• Enjoyment of football is part of the social context, and I have lost my faith in this social context.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Football, Social, Lost

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm a relatively disciplined writer who composes the whole book before beginning to execute and write it. Of course, you can't hold - you cannot imagine a whole novel before you write it; there are limits to human memory and imagination. Lots of things come to your mind as you write a book, but again, I make a plan, chapter, know the plot.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Memories, Book, Writing

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 11, 2009.

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• I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.

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  Country, Europe, Turkeys

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• I don't read newspapers in the morning. I take a look at the dailies in the afternoon, but only when I've finished my work for the day. Reading about what is happening in Turkey once again would only be demoralizing for me.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Morning, Reading, Turkeys

  "No One Drives Me into Exile". Interview with Dieter Bednarz and Annette Grossbongardt, www.spiegel.de. May 2, 2007.

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• No one drives me into exile, not even the nationalists.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Exile

  "SPIEGEL Interview with Orhan Pamuk 'No One Drives Me into Exile'". Interview with Dieter Bednarz and Annette Grossbongardt, www.spiegel.de. May 2, 2007.

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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.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Country, Eye, Media

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• I don’t like to make strong statements. I want to write strong novels … I keep my deep radical things for my novels.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Strong, Writing, Want

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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

  Turkeys, People, Culture

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• [N]othing is as surprising as life. Except for writing. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the only consolation.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Writing, Consolation, Surprising

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• I believe strongly in an author's moral responsibility. But his first obligation is to write good books.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Believe, Book, Writing

  "SPIEGEL Interview with Orhan Pamuk 'No One Drives Me into Exile'". Interview with Dieter Bednarz and Annette Grossbongardt, www.spiegel.de. May 2, 2007.

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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.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Writing, Turkeys, Want

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• I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Body, Wells, Bottom

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “My Name Is Red”, p.3, Faber & Faber

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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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  People, Great Change

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• For the traveler we see leaning on his neighbor is an honest and well-meaning man and full of melancholy, like those Chekhov characters so laden with virtues that they never know success in life.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Character, Men, Honest

  FaceBook post by Orhan Pamuk from Mar 27, 2012

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• Try to discover who I am from my choice of words and colors, as attentive people like yourselves might examine footprints to catch a thief.

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  Who I Am, Color, People

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “My Name Is Red”, p.20, Faber & Faber

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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.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Art, Writing, Fiction

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• She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new place, or in young people still open to new influences, still curious about the world because they have not yet been scarred by life.

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  Children, Eye, Light

  FaceBook post by Orhan Pamuk from Apr 04, 2012

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• Ka thought it strangely depressing that the suicide girls had had to struggle to find a private moment to kill themselves. Even after swallowing their pills, even as they lay quietly dying, they’d had to share their rooms with others.

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  Girl, Suicide, Depressing

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• 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.

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  Joy, Looks, Bliss

  Orhan Pamuk (2002). “My Name is Red”, Vintage

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• If the Americans would only take all the money they have spent on this war (Iraq), and spend it like Soros has done on civil societies in these countries, then in 10 years they would have wonderful results.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Country, War, Iraq

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• How different from the cosy world of Rüya's detective novels, where authors never vexed a hero with more signs than he needed.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Hero, Different, World

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• Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic, it usually means we're about to kill each other--or kill ourselves.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Dream, Mean, People

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “Snow”, p.316, Faber & Faber

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• Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.

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  Istanbul, Class, Western Culture

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• 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

  Real, Book, Fantasy

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist: Understanding What Happens When We Write and Read Novels”, p.21, Faber & Faber

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• Oscar Wilde always makes me smile - with respect and admiration. His short stories prove that it is possible to be both sarcastic, even cynical, but deeply compassionate. Just seeing the cover of one of Wildes books in a bookshop makes me smile.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Sarcastic, Book, Cynical

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