"Try to discover who I am from my……" — Orhan Pamuk
"Try to discover who I am from my choice of words and colors, as attentive people like yourselves might examine footprints to catch a thief."
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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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Actually, it's the other way round. In a poor country, the only consolation people can have is the one that…
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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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We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth…
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Just as in prayer it is not we who momentarily catch His attention, but He ours, so when we fail…
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...people mostly pray as if there were no God with them, or as if He did not heed their prayers.…
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As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me,…
— David Brainerd
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While praying, listen to the words very carefully. When your heart is attentive, your entire being enters your prayer without…
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Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not,…
— George Washington
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Lord Jesus, Who in the Eucharist make your dwelling among us and become our traveling companion, sustain our Christian communities…
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Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for…
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Bottle, whose Mysterious Deep Do's ten thousand Secrets keep, With attentive Ear I wait; Ease my Mind, and speak my…
— Francois Rabelais
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One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.
— Groucho Marx
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Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Luck is the attentive photographer's best teacher.
— John Szarkowski
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