Political Quotes by Orhan Pamuk

11 Political quotes by Orhan Pamuk

Pamuk blends literary elegance with civic commentary, offering thoughtful remarks on power, identity, and the public sphere. Though the collection is small, each line reveals his nuanced view of political life.

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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…

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Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily…

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I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels…

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'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it…

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These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are…

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I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation…

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The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns…

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Novels are political not because writers carry party cards -- some do, I do not -- but because good fiction is about…

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Novels are political because in them, we try to identify with people who are not like us. And, in that sense, I…

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If Turkey become a member of the EU, of course Turks would lose a part of this identity, just as Europe would…

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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…

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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.

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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.…

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I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.

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“...love is deep attention, deep compassion...”

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Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.

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“If you think you are better than Stork, then by all means, get hold of me.”

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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…

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Love is a sacred silence.

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“Creíamos saber mucho, pero no sabíamos nada. ”

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“A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he…

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“Near Taksim he suddenly found himself inside a crowd of people leaving a movie theater. They were staring straight ahead, as if in a…

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