"Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing?"
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"Ka thought it strangely depressing that the suicide girls had had to struggle to find a private moment to kill themselves. Even after swallowing their pills, even as they lay quietly dying, they’d had to share their rooms with others."
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"Enjoyment of football is part of the social context, and I have lost my faith in this social context."
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"Morality is probably the last thing one can learn from football."
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"I have hired a bodyguard, on the recommendation of my friends and the government. It's outrageous, having to live like this."
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"She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new place, or in young people still open to new influences, still curious about the world because they have not yet been scarred by life."
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"We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction"
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"In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time."
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"Turkish football serves the cause of nationalism, but not of the nation."
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"Nationalism stems from catastrophes, whether they are caused by earthquakes or lost wars."
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"To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much of this is fantasy, and how much is real?"
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"Oscar Wilde always makes me smile - with respect and admiration. His short stories prove that it is possible to be both sarcastic, even cynical, but deeply compassionate. Just seeing the cover of one of Wildes books in a bookshop makes me smile."
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"How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another's heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known? Even if the world's rich and powerful were to put themselves in the shoes of the rest, how much would they really understand the wretched millions suffering around them? So it is when Orhan the novelist peers into the dark corners of his poet friend's difficult and painful life: How much can he really see?"
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"The image that I remember most of all is of the Fenerbahçe players storming into the stadium before kickoff. They were called the canaries because of their yellow jerseys. It was as if they, like canaries, were fluttering into the stadium out of a hole. I loved it. It was poetry."
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"What was venerated as style was nothing more than an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty hand."
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"Try to discover who I am from my choice of words and colors, as attentive people like yourselves might examine footprints to catch a thief."
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"Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it."
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