Orhan Pamuk

...a nation could change its way of life, its history, its technology, its art, literature, and culture, but it would never have a real chance to change its gestures. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#art

Believing that Sibel was saying these things to me to make me angry, I got angry. But this is not to say that the fury owed nothing to my partial awareness that she was right. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#awareness #anger

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

#being #feeling #flourish #margins #movements

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

#defend #dignity #europe #hand #includes

There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#been #clear #everyone #nationalist #quite

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

#army #believing #control #could #haven

The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#imitation #opponents #poor #process #tried

The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#conception #does #experience #god #hero

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

#came #give #hero #things #too

I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#city #describe #i #people #psychological