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World Quotes by Orhan Pamuk
- Over time, I have come to see the work of literature less as narrating the world than "seeing the world with words." From the moment…
- 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…
- A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is.
- For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home.
- The entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from one room to…
- A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is:…
- The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see…
- 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…
- 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…
- If we give what we treasure most to a Being we love with all our hearts, if we can do that without expecting anything in…
- 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…
- Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.
- From a very young age, I suspected there was more to my world than I could see: somewhere in the streets of Istanbul, in a…
- Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should…
- I write a world where everyone is partly right.
- When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57…
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach