Orhan Pamuk Quotes

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.

Orhan Pamuk

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
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  • Birth: June 7, 1952

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I'm still really close with everyone at home and their parents - and their brothers and sisters. I was so, so, so lucky to grow up as part of a community and I don't take that for granted. I try very hard to stay part of it.

Jennifer Garner

HomeCommunityParentsGrowLucky

I say let's not gamble with American jobs and America's future.

John Glenn

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A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

John F. Kennedy

ManDieFallRiseMayIdea

I love writing about young people.

Stephanie Savage

LovePeopleWritingYoungAbout

Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.

Spike Milligan

UsedShouldEveryOccasion

But once you have satisfied your material needs, which I think every wealth creator should - the house, the car, the plane, the boat - what comes next?

Tom Hunter

CarBoatThinkYouWealthHouse

I feel like I own the stage.

Ritchie Blackmore

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I'm not the only guy who doesn't have an independent wrestling background. You know, I have a football background, but I also have a wrestling one.

Roman Reigns

FootballYouKnowIndependentGuy

If little green men land in your back yard, hide any little green women you've got in the house.

Mike Harding

WomenMenGreenYouHouseHide

Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.

Bob Riley

GoodPeopleEvilStandGood People

When I was seven, I had to stay home for several weeks because of some ailment, whereupon my father elected to teach me so that I should not fall behind. In fact, he taught me in three months as much as the school taught in two years, so, on returning to school, I was shifted from grade 4 to grade 6.

Arthur Lewis

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Every fish fertilizes the water in a way that generates the plankton that ultimately leads back into the food chain, but also yields oxygen, grabs carbon - it's a part of what makes the ocean function and what makes the planet function.

Sylvia Earle

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