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Orhan Pamuk Biography

Ferit Orhan Pamuk (generally known simply as Orhan Pamuk; born 7 June 1952) is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, his work has sold over thirteen million books in sixty-three languages, making him the country's best-selling writer.

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We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction

Distinction, Insist, Poor, Right, Stupid

It may not happen in the first instant, but within ten minutes of meeting a man, a woman has a clear idea of who he is, or at least who he might be for her, and her heart of hearts has already told her whether or not she's going to fall in love with him.

Clear, Falling In Love, Heart, Instant, Men, Minutes

My religion is complicated. Literature is my true religion. After all, I come from a completely non-religious family.

Come, Complicated, Family, Literature, Religious

For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home.

Emblazoned, Face, Heart, Home, World

In his brilliant new book Pankaj Mishra reverses the long gaze of the West upon the East, showing modern history as it has been felt by the majority of the world's population from Turkey to China. These are the amazing stories of the grandfathers of today's angry Asians. Excellent!

Amazing, Book, East, Long, Turkeys

My unhappiness protects me from life.

Life, Protect, Protects, Unhappiness

My childhood proved to me that there could be no enjoyment of football without community. But it becomes difficult when this community is having problems with its identity. That's when we experience all possible forms of nationalist exaggeration.

Becomes, Childhood, Community, Football, Nationalist, Problems

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?

Crush, Crushing, Greater, Pain, Painful, Powerful

How different from the cosy world of Rüya's detective novels, where authors never vexed a hero with more signs than he needed.

Detective, Different, Hero, World

A letter doesn't communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it, touching it and fondling it. Thereby, intelligent folk will say, 'Go on then, read what the letter tells you!' whereas the dull-witted will say, 'Go on then, read what he's written!

Book, Intelligent, Like, Smelling, Thereby, Touching

Ka found it very soothing: for the first time in years, he felt part of a family. In spite of the trials and responsibilities of what was called 'family', he saw now the joys of its unyielding togetherness, and was sorry not to have known more of it in his life.

Found, Life, Responsibilities, Responsibility, Sorry, Years

Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head.

Book, Different, Instruments, Musical, Realize, Sort

Turkey, with its political intolerance, as I have described it, is prepared to march forward, to break with its taboo about the Armenians, and is making great strides with respect to human rights and freedom of speech so that it can join the European Union. This alone shows how powerful the European idea is.

Described, Ideas, Powerful, Prepared, Taboo, Turkeys

Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with İpek. And realizing that this love would determine the rest of his life, he was filled with dread.

Dread, Filled, Realized, Realizing

Time had not faded my memories (as I had prayed to God it might), nor had it healed my wounds as it is said always to do. I began each day with the hope that the next day would be better, my recollections a little less pointed, but I would awake to the same pain, as if a black lamp were burning eternally inside me, radiating darkness.

Lamp, Memories, Next Day, Pain, Prayed

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.

Consoled, Heart, Losing, Museums, Old, Sense

I do not believe in a personal connection to God; that's where it gets transcendental.

Believe, Connection, Connections, Transcendental

Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.

Class, Conservative, Consuming, Istanbul, Places, Western Culture

The urbanized life has lead to the destruction of the legends.

Destruction, Lead, Legends, Urbanized

I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.

Imagination, Loneliness, Make, Pain, Work

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