"Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort."

-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#Comfort Quotes #Aging Quotes #Misunderstanding Quotes

“No, you're wrong. I'm a hundred percent callow and deeply shallow.”
“The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.”
“I have no plans of getting married so soon”
“If I should have a daughterâ€¦ Iâ€™m gonna paint the solar system on the backs of her hands so she has to learn the entire universe before she can say â€˜oh I know that like the back of my hand.”
“May you live all the days of your life.”
“Eventually, if your career goes higher and higher, that's just how it is, but it's a little frightening. When I was younger and I thought about being an actor, I thought of the old Hollywood style of glamour, and that was so beautiful and appealing to me. Now, if you want to be an actor, it's not the same.”
“What do we do with ourselves when we find we have failed to become the adults we dreamed as pious children?”
“A letter doesn't communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it, touching it and fondling it. Thereby, intelligent folk will say, 'Go on then, read what the letter tells you!' whereas the dull-witted will say, 'Go on then, read what he's written!”

Source : Orhan Pamuk (2011). “My Name Is Red”, p.44, Faber & Faber

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