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Them Quotes by Orhan Pamuk
- To savour Istanbul's back streets, to appreciate the vines and trees that endow its ruins with accidental grace, you must, first and foremost, be a…
- Hüzün does not just paralyze the inhabitants of Instanbul, it also gives them poetic license to be paralyzed.
- 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…
- As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them
- When we lose people we love, we should never disturb their souls, whether living or dead. Instead. we should find consolation in an object that…
- 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…
- 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…
- When you look into the faces of these quiet creatures who don't know how to tell stories--who are mute, who can't make themselves heard, who…
- And before long , the msuic , the views rushing past the window , my fathers voice and the narrow cobblestone streets all merged into…
- When two people love each other as we do, no one can come between them, no one," I said, amazed at the words I was…
- In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by…
- Sometimes I would see them not as mementos of the blissful hours but as the tangible precious debris of the storm raging in my soul.
- 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…
- Novels are political because in them, we try to identify with people who are not like us. And, in that sense, I like the first-person…
- I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels -…
- I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when I see that…
- If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have…
More Them Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster