American - Author | 1977 -
I felt grateful to Ataturk that my parents were so well educated, that they weren't held back by superstition or religion, that they were true scientists who taught me how to read when I was three and never doubted that I could become a writer.
Elif Batuman
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If, for a moment, it seemed that September 11th could be identified with Iraq, the illusion was short-lived.
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Awkwardness is the consciousness of a false position.
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'Awkward' implies both solidarity and implication. Nobody is exempt.
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Awkwardness comes from the realization that, when you look around the world, it's difficult to identify anyone who isn't either the victim or the beneficiary of injustice.
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'Gone Girl' is as much about the near impossibility of being a good husband as it is about the anguish of being a good wife.
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It's possible to watch 'Gone Girl' and feel that you have seen something terribly bleak. But it's also possible to receive it as good news. Any powerful articulation of the need for change is also a testimony to the possibility of change.
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Lists are based on realism - on the coldly contemplated finitude of resources.
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The first time I held an African drum in my hands was at Koc University in a forest in the northern suburbs of Istanbul.
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Anyone who has ever tried to plot a detective mystery knows that the hardest thing to come up with is motive.
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I grew up thinking that it was immoral to idealize the past because, in the past, there was slavery and no penicillin.
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The Himalayan glaciers, China's trade surplus, Olympic ice hockey - the world is full of pressing subjects that people never consult me about.
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