"I need the pain of loneliness to make…" — Orhan Pamuk

"I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work."

— Orhan Pamuk

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156 Quotes by Orhan Pamuk

Orhan Pamuk has 156 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver.
If the Americans would only take all the money they have spent on this war (Iraq), and spend it like…
Actually, it's the other way round. In a poor country, the only consolation people can have is the one that…
Snow reminds Ka of God! But I’m not sure it would be accurate. What brings me close to God is…
To savour Istanbul's back streets, to appreciate the vines and trees that endow its ruins with accidental grace, you must,…
Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity.
To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book:…
Where there is true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace…
Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing?
I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.
My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value…
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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More Imagination Quotes

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To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. — Marcus Aurelius
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — Jane Austen
What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. — Lauren Bacall
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him… — Francis Bacon
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. — Francis Bacon
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because… — David Bailey
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. — James A. Baldwin
I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means. — J. G. Ballard
The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction… — J. G. Ballard
I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination. — Eric Bana

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