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Orhan Pamuk
Orhan Pamuk
Novelist
Born: Jun 7, 1952
Life Me People Political Work Writing
Related authors: Charles Dickens Ernest Hemingway Gustave Flaubert James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Paulo Coelho Walter Scott
I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to it, I'm a happier person. Kierkegaard tells us that a happy person is someone who lives in the present; the unhappy person, someone who lives either in the past or the future. Orhan Pamuk
Future Happy Remember Unhappy Past Before Painting Tells Someone Red Name Wrote Does Intellect Hand Person Just Where In The Past Either Happier Us Happy Person Who Captive Lives Present
When I paint, I definitely live in the present, like someone in a shower whistling or singing. Orhan Pamuk
Singing Live Definitely Someone Like Whistling Paint Shower Present
I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular. Orhan Pamuk
Enjoy Characters First-Person Always Singular
We should not judge Islam by terrorists. All civilizations and cultures produce terrorists. Every time there is a flag-burning, killing, or provocative films, I'm worried, not because something radical will happen, and this time, some people are killed. We're very sorry for that. Orhan Pamuk
Time People Judge Will Some People Sorry Islam Radical Every Films Every Time Worried Some Something Civilizations Because Terrorists Cultures Very Provocative Happen Produce Should
I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing. Orhan Pamuk
Politics People Writing Care Think About Than Less
The fueling of anti-Turkish sentiment in Europe is resulting in an anti-European, indiscriminate nationalism in Turkey. Orhan Pamuk
Nationalism Sentiment Indiscriminate Resulting Turkey Europe
Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation. Orhan Pamuk
Life Writing Nothing Sole Astounding Consolation Except Course Yes
I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul. Orhan Pamuk
Feeling Those Focusing Telling Would Objects More Through Had Protagonists Make Real Istanbul Western Different Story Them Novels
I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when I see that they are broken or embarrassing to wear. Orhan Pamuk
Broken Clothes Embarrassing Pens Wear See Only Throw Never Replace Get Them Used Away Fountain
Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture. Orhan Pamuk
Government Culture Signs Rich State Inventions Tend Powerful Exhibit Western Where Images Symbol Museums
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