"I read a book one day and my whole life was changed."

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Source : Orhan Pamuk (2014). “The New Life”, p.6, Macmillan

Orhan Pamuk

#Inspirational Quotes #Book Quotes #Reading Quotes

“I love challenging the status quo.”
“This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living.”
“And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense? --now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound well, too. It was the beating of the old man's heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.”
“I love the sound of words, the feel of them, the flow of them. I love the challenge of finding just that perfect combination of words to describe a curl of the lip, a tilt of the chin, a change in the atmosphere. Done well, novel-writing can combine lyricism with practicality in a way that makes one think of grand tapestries, both functional and beautiful. Fifty years from now, I imagine Iâ€™ll still be questing after just that right combination of words.”
“Life has no romance without risk.”
“Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.”
“I feel I've made the transition from model to actress, but I'm not that secure about it. Lauren Hutton, Jennifer O'Neill - we all know that a few films don't mean all that much.”
“During the early 1960s, I decided to supplement research support for quantitative economic studies at Pennsylvania by selling econometric forecasts to private and public sector buyers.”

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