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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.

Author: Orhan Pamuk - Novelist
  Just , Place , Through , Museum


Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.

Author: Orhan Pamuk - Novelist


The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums. Museums are about representing power. It could be the king's power or, later, people's power.

Author: Orhan Pamuk - Novelist
  People , Power , King , Habit


If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.

Author: Orhan Pamuk - Novelist
  People , Art , Power , Hope


Culture is mix. Culture means a mix of things from other sources. And my town, Istanbul, was this kind of mix. Istanbul, in fact, and my work, is a testimony to the fact that East and West combine cultural gracefully, or sometimes in an anarchic way, came together, and that is what we should search for.

Author: Orhan Pamuk - Novelist
  Sometimes , Work , Culture , Together


When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.

Author: Orhan Pamuk - Novelist
  I Am , Happy , Happiness , I Am Happy


I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I've read and know humanity a lot. There are moments that I admire in a person courage, intellect, hard work. These are the qualities I admire in an intellectual, in a writer, and there are so many people who have these things.

Author: Orhan Pamuk - Novelist
  People , Work , Hard Work , Courage


For me, Westernization is not about consuming fanciful goods; it's about a system of free speech, democracy, egalitarianism and respect for the people's rights and dignity.

Author: Orhan Pamuk - Novelist
  Me , People , Respect , Democracy


We fall in love more deeply when we're unhappy.

Author: Orhan Pamuk - Novelist
  Love , More , Fall , Unhappy


I came across humanity in Istanbul, and all I know about life comes from Istanbul, and definitely, I am writing about Istanbul. I also love the city because I live there, it has formed me, and it's me. Of course it is natural. If somebody lived all his life in Delhi, he will write about Delhi.

Author: Orhan Pamuk - Novelist
  Life , Love , Me , I Am


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