All Orhan Pamuk Quotes
My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.
Orhan Pamuk
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The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.
Orhan Pamuk
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The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western.
Orhan Pamuk
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The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.
Orhan Pamuk
54% of people like this quote
The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.
Orhan Pamuk
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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
Orhan Pamuk
52% of people like this quote
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
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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.
Orhan Pamuk
48% of people like this quote
There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well.
Orhan Pamuk
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
Orhan Pamuk
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I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.
Orhan Pamuk
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These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.
Orhan Pamuk
40% of people like this quote
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