"I think a lot about the poems I……" — Orhan Pamuk
"I think a lot about the poems I wasn't able to write...I masturbrated...Solitude is essentially a matter of pride; you bury yourself in your own scent. The issue is the same for all real poets. If you've been happy for too long, you become banal. By the same token, if you've been unhappy for a long time, you lose your poetic power...Happiness and poverty can only coexist for the briefest time. Afterword either happiness coarsens the poet or the poem is so true it destroys his happiness."
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156 Quotes by Orhan Pamuk
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The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver.
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To savour Istanbul's back streets, to appreciate the vines and trees that endow its ruins with accidental grace, you must,…
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Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity.
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To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book:…
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Where there is true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace…
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Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing?
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I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.
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My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value…
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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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