Orhan Pamuk Quotes - Page 5

• We had no desire to live in Istanbul, nor in Paris or New York. Let them have their discos and dollars, their skycrapers and supersonics transports. Let them have their radios and their color TV, hey, we have ours, don't we? But we have something they don't have. Heart. We have heart. Look, look how the light of life seeps into my very heart

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  New York, Heart, Color

  Orhan Pamuk (2014). “The New Life: A Novel”, p.104, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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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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  Home, Soul, Identity

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “Snow”, p.75, Faber & Faber

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• En su brillante nuevo libro, Pankaj Mishra invierte la larga mirada de Occidente sobre Oriente, mostrando la historia moderna tal y como la ha sentido la mayoría de la población mundial, desde Turquía hasta China. Estas son las increíbles historias de los abuelos de los enfurecidos asiáticos de hoy. Excelente.

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  Book, Turkeys, Long

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• My childhood proved to me that there could be no enjoyment of football without community. But it becomes difficult when this community is having problems with its identity. That's when we experience all possible forms of nationalist exaggeration.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Football, Childhood, Community

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• Soy una persona muy disciplinada. Todas las mañanas me levanto a las siete y, aún en pijama, me siento en mi escritorio, donde tengo preparadas mis carpetas de anillas a cuadros y mi pluma estilográfica. Intento escribir dos páginas cada día.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Morning, Writing, Two

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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

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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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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• 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

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• ¡La nieve le recuerda a Ka a Dios! Pero no estoy seguro de que sea exacto. Lo que me acerca a Dios es el silencio de la nieve.

  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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• Estaba al límite de mis fuerzas cuando se publicó mi primer libro. Durante ocho años no gané un duro, trabajé mucho, no bebí, no disfruté de la vida.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Libro, trabajo duro, compromiso

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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 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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• 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.

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  Europe, Islam, Together

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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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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• Turquía, con su intolerancia política, tal como la he descrito, está dispuesta a marchar hacia adelante, a romper con su tabú sobre los armenios, y está dando grandes pasos con respecto a los derechos humanos y la libertad de expresión para poder ingresar en la Unión Europea. Esto demuestra por sí solo lo poderosa que es la idea europea.

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  Powerful, Rights, Turkeys

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

  Orhan Pamuk

  Exilio

  "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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• No leo periódicos por la mañana. Echo un vistazo a los diarios por la tarde, pero sólo cuando he terminado mi trabajo del día. Volver a leer lo que está ocurriendo en Turquía sólo me desmoralizaría.

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  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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• 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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• 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.

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  Memories, Book, Writing

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

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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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  Niños, Ojo, Luz

  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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