"We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we……" — Orhan Pamuk
"We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction"
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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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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
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I don't make a distinction between men and women. To me they are just people.
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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
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The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to…
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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment…
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To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I…
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We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.
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God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of…
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