"We had no desire to live in Istanbul,……" — Orhan Pamuk
"We had no desire to live in Istanbul, nor in Paris or New York. Let them have their discos and dollars, their skycrapers and supersonics transports. Let them have their radios and their color TV, hey, we have ours, don't we? But we have something they don't have. Heart. We have heart. Look, look how the light of life seeps into my very heart"
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156 Quotes by Orhan Pamuk
Orhan Pamuk has 156 quotes on this site.
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