Money Quote by Orhan Pamuk

“Had I been told Istanbul used to be a poorer, smaller and happier city, I might not have believed it, but that’s what my…

— Orhan Pamuk

People feel that the beauty of the Istanbul is something we used to have in the past or something we will have in the…

— Burhan Sonmez

“enchanted Turkish Delight and that anyone who had once tasted it would want more and more of it, and would even, if they were…

— C.S. Lewis

“From the first, Istanbul had given him the impression of a town where, with the night, horror creeps out of the stones. It seemed…

— Ian Fleming

“And with the inflation our inner system disintegrated utterly. Fortunes disappeared overnight. Money that one day would have meant lifelong security, on the next…

— Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

“This is always always always what she wished a bazaar to be. Demre, proudly claiming to be the birthplace of Santa Claus, was direly…

— Ian McDonald

“These coins are not very valuable. Jack went out to get a napoleon changed, so as to have money suited to the general cheapness…

— Mark Twain

“It was all because of the traffic, she would later reassure herself. Rumbling, roaring, metal clanking against metal like the cries of a thousand…

— Elif Shafak

Istanbul is certainly in the process of transforming itself into an attractive cultural, tourist and financial center. But there are also millions of sad…

— Orhan Pamuk

“The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the…

— Walter Isaacson

“Over the course of human history, many items have briefly flourished as means of exchange, only to be demonetarized. Now, we have demonetarized money.”

— Markham Shaw Pyle

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

— Orhan Pamuk