Orhan Pamuk Quotes

I don't like to make strong statements. I want to write strong novels... I keep my deep, radical things for my novels.

Orhan Pamuk

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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DeepStrongWantWriteThingsKeep

Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive.

John French Sloan

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For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

Maxwell Maltz

ImaginationPictureGoalWillFail

I hated baseball. I really didn't like baseball at all until someone decided they were going to pay me... Every year I played in the big leagues, the day the season ended, I called my buddies in West Virginia and said, 'I'll be home tomorrow.'

John Kruk

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I came up in 1941 and I played against men who played in the 1930s. I stayed until 1963 playing against men who will be playing in the 1970s. So I think I can feel qualified to say that baseball really was a great game, and baseball is really a great game, and baseball will always be a great game.

Stan Musial

GreatMenBaseballGameThinkFeel

I would say that the fundamental question of geography is about how humans shaped the Earth's surface and how we, in turn, are shaped by the ways in which we have shaped the Earth's surface. So, for me, geography was just a set of tools that allowed me to ask these kinds of questions and to try to think through them.

Trevor Paglen

MeThinkToolsQuestionsEarthSay

I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry.

Rodney Alexander

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Oh, I'm impressed with Lorraine Hansberry. She was a genius at whose feet I could sit.

Ruby Dee

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I wasn't a child who wanted to be an actor.

Mary Badham

ChildActorWhoWanted

But it all came, and for me, hip-hop has done more for racial divide and racial sort of bringing together than anything in the last 30 years. Seeing people like Eminem sounding like somebody like Jay-Z and just the racial aspects of it all.

Michael Rapaport

TogetherPeopleMeSeeingDoneMore

Just keep the idea in the back of your head: 'I can't control L.A. traffic. I'll leave earlier than I think I need to, and I'll get there when I get there.'

Janet Varney

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I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.

Jonathan Franzen

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The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality.

Deepak Chopra

LiveBestQualityMindIntention

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