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Orhan Pamuk Quotes

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.

Orhan Pamuk

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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People Remember Long Will Pass Text

Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age.

John Perry Barlow

Age Say Everyone Boundaries Within

I won an amateur night, October 8th, 1985. I went to work the next day and quit my job.

Steve Harvey

Work Day Job Night Quit Next

My parents had us in church every Sunday, every Wednesday. It was more of a tradition at that point; I didn't have a personal relationship with the Lord until I went to the altar call one Sunday, and the youth pastor told us to make a decision for ourselves.

Stephen Curry

Relationship Decision Parents Youth

A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbor notice it.

Trygve Lie

Neighbor Real Without Cut Notice

Ukippers are the kinds of fools who haven't noticed they're sleep-walking towards fascism. Many UKIP candidates are of the age when their parents fought in the Second World War.

Robert Webb

Age War Parents World Fools Fascism

I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries.

Michael Ondaatje

Home Feel Citizen Want Always Lanka

I think we live in delusional times, whether it's with a great ability to totally distract ourselves with technology, or with speed and the velocity of life.

Michael Leunig

Life Live Technology Great Think

When you feel you've done something wrong, you should apologise for it.

Luis Suarez

Feel You Wrong Done Something

There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.

Livy

Great Man Nothing Will Out Hold

I couldn't stand it. It was what I thought I always wanted. I was there every day in the trenches, and I hated everything about that job. But what I loved - and what I got from 'The Tooth Fairy' - was to see how studio movies were released.

Jason Blum

Day Job Thought Stand Loved Movies

Even though I have bad qualities in my personal life, as an athlete, I can turn it on.

Jon Jones

Life Bad I Can Athlete Personal

'Not again!' I thought to myself this morning, as news trickled out that John McCain was set to pick Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Not again, because too often women are promoted for the wrong reasons, and then blamed when things don't go right.

Dee Dee Myers

Women Morning Myself Thought Wrong