Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe. Orhan Pamuk More Quotes by Orhan Pamuk More Quotes From Orhan Pamuk What was venerated as style was nothing more than an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty hand. Orhan Pamuk imperfection style hands 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. Orhan Pamuk who-i-am color people For the traveler we see leaning on his neighbor is an honest and well-meaning man and full of melancholy, like those Chekhov characters so laden with virtues that they never know success in life. Orhan Pamuk honest character men I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well. Orhan Pamuk bottom wells body Are you an angel that approaching you should be so terrifying? Orhan Pamuk angel should She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new place, or in young people still open to new influences, still curious about the world because they have not yet been scarred by life. Orhan Pamuk light eye children Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible. Orhan Pamuk handsome age made Ka thought it strangely depressing that the suicide girls had had to struggle to find a private moment to kill themselves. Even after swallowing their pills, even as they lay quietly dying, they’d had to share their rooms with others. Orhan Pamuk depressing girl suicide With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceable mementos of a lost world whose every detail figured in the meaning of the whole. Orhan Pamuk everyday ordinary father Colour is the touch of the eye, Music to the deaf, A word out of darkness. Orhan Pamuk deaf eye darkness In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they're not wealthy. That is how civilized people behave. If you ask me, being cultured and civilized is not about everyone being free and equal; it's about everyone being refined enough to act as if they were. Then no one has to feel guilty. Orhan Pamuk being-free europe people In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time. Orhan Pamuk losing heart museums How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another's heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known? Even if the world's rich and powerful were to put themselves in the shoes of the rest, how much would they really understand the wretched millions suffering around them? So it is when Orhan the novelist peers into the dark corners of his poet friend's difficult and painful life: How much can he really see? Orhan Pamuk crush pain powerful Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love. Orhan Pamuk book way thinking I work seven days a week, from 9 in the morning till 8 at night. I have the titles of the next eight novels I want to write. I feel myself pitiable, degraded on a day that I don't write. Orhan Pamuk hard-work writing morning Let everyone know, I lived a very happy life. Orhan Pamuk very-happy knows happy-life I believe strongly in an author's moral responsibility. But his first obligation is to write good books. Orhan Pamuk writing believe book The real choice we have to make is between peace and nationalism. Orhan Pamuk nationalism choices real I'm a relatively disciplined writer who composes the whole book before beginning to execute and write it. Of course, you can't hold - you cannot imagine a whole novel before you write it; there are limits to human memory and imagination. Lots of things come to your mind as you write a book, but again, I make a plan, chapter, know the plot. Orhan Pamuk writing memories book It's a great relief for me that no one will ask me anymore: "Orhan, when will you get the Nobel Prize?" Orhan Pamuk ask-me relief nobel
