"Sometimes I would see them not as mementos……" — Orhan Pamuk
"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."
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156 Quotes by Orhan Pamuk
Orhan Pamuk has 156 quotes on this site.
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The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver.
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If the Americans would only take all the money they have spent on this war (Iraq), and spend it like…
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Snow reminds Ka of God! But I’m not sure it would be accurate. What brings me close to God is…
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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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