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" 'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman. "
Orhan Pamuk
Woman
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Love
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" Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others. "
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" The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western. "
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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 in the west. "
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" I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual. "
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" Modernity means overabundance. We are living in the age of mass-produced objects, things that come without announcing themselves and end up on our tables, on our walls. We use them - most of us don't even notice them - and then they vanish without fanfare. "
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" Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey. "
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" The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience. "
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" I write a world where everyone is partly right. "
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" Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it. "
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" I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries. "
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" 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. "
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" A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects. "
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" Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasies of the earlier generations. "
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" Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure. "
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Positive
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" 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. "
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" When I was publishing my first books, the previous generation of authors was fading away, so I was welcomed because I was a new author. "
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" 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. "
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Hand
Need
" When people read a novel 600 pages long, six months pass, and all they will remember are five pages. They don't remember the text - instead, they remember the sensations the text gives them. "
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" Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy. "
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Never
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" I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels there. "
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" I consider myself Istanbul's storyteller. My subject matter is my town. I consider it my job to explore the hidden patterns of my city's clandestine corners, its shady, mysterious places, the things I love. "
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" We fall in love more deeply when we're unhappy. "
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" The truly great books are always novels: 'Anna Karenina,' 'The Brothers Karamazov,' 'The Magic Mountain.' Just as with 'Shahnameh,' I browse these books from time to time to remember how a great book works on us or to teach my students at Columbia University. "
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" I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I'm playing. "
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" I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, 'Look, I'm interested in Ottoman things, and I'm not afraid of it, and I'm doing something creative.' "
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" I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing. "
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" 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. "
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" At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life. "
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