We read novels because we want to see the world through other experiences, other beings, other eyes, other cultures.
– Orhan Pamuk
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- I read a book one day and my whole life was changed. – Orhan Pamuk
- What is the meaning of it all, of this…of this world?’Mystery’, I heard in my thoughts, or perhaps, ‘mercy’, but I wasn’t certain of either. – Orhan Pamuk
- Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow. – Orhan Pamuk
- Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity. – Orhan Pamuk
- Remembering the past always comes with an image or a view attached. – Orhan Pamuk
- Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere – Orhan Pamuk
- I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work. – Orhan Pamuk
- The only antidote to the loneliness of the streets was the streets themselves. – Orhan Pamuk
- Despite the loss they were suffering, they’d both relaxed – as people do when they realize they’ve run out of chances for happiness – Orhan Pamuk
- Einstein…even failed physics once, but he’d never thought of giving up school to make a living. – Orhan Pamuk
- We’re not stupid! We’re just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction – Orhan Pamuk
- Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with Ä°pek. And realizing that this love would determine the rest of his life, he was filled with dread. – Orhan Pamuk
- I do know this much though: If a man resorts to wiles, guile and petty deceptions, it means he’s nowhere near being in love. – Orhan Pamuk
- -¦he quit drinking coffee, and naturally, his brain stopped working. – Orhan Pamuk
- Sometimes I would see them not as mementos of the blissful hours but as the tangible precious debris of the storm raging in my soul. – Orhan Pamuk
- Those who can truly see, know. – Orhan Pamuk
- It’s not the content, but the form of thought that counts. – Orhan Pamuk
- Contrary to what is commonly believed, all murderers are men of extreme faith rather than unbelievers. – Orhan Pamuk
- Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible. – Orhan Pamuk
- As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them – Orhan Pamuk
- Culture becomes visible when we travel between -œ cultures - and when we look back in time to other -œ cultures - than our own. – Michael Ryan
- Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style. – RL Stine
- Authentic leadership is at the root of cultures of great innovation, engagement, outstanding client experiences, and growth. – Henna Inam
- And read-¦ read all the time-¦ read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life. – David McCullough Jr
- Read. Read until your eyes are sore. Then read some more. – Lisa Bloom
- Diana felt she was beginning to understand why, in all those novels she read, the headiest loves were the loves that couldn’t be. – Anna Godbersen
- Read history, works of truth, not novels and romances – Robert E Lee
- What novels did you read when you were young, dear? I’m convinced it all turns on that. – Edith Wharton
- Who says only long tedious novels are good to read when all that can be summed up in one line – Priyansh Shah
- Reality’s kind of a medium, maybe greater than paper. We all want life to have the same texture that we read about in novels. – Why The Lucky Stiff
- Imogen was a bright girl naturally, but she had read so many novels that her brain was completely turned. – Susan Coolidge
- I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There’s some hollowness if they don’t. – Philip Hensher
- Life is a journey filled with experiences but without the experiences, there will be no life. – Kemi Sogunle
- [she] believes our experiences and our worlds make us. I believe our choices make our experiences and our worlds. – Josephine Angelini
- Great experiences are built on a foundation of bad experiences. – Tim Fargo
- The One that experiences itself as your body-mind is the same One that experiences itself in every other body-mind, form, or appearance that exists. – Enza Vita
- Develop new stories from new positive experiences and relationships -” the experiences of your emerging new self! – Bryant McGill
- Life’s experiences will just keep repeating themselves unless you continually add some new experiences to enliven your days. – Steven Redhead
- Privileged people can fall into the trap of universalizing experiences and laying them across other people’s experiences as an interpretive lens. – Matt Chandler
- I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture those experiences. – Sophia Rose