Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we’ve often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don’t feel like the Devil.
Painting taught literature to describe.
The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life.
Now everyone is prouder and poorer.
As always after drinking too much, I felt like my own ghost trying to take it’s first solo walk outside the body.
We’re not stupid! We’re just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction.
When something explosive is kept hidden away, a tension builds within that must ultimately be released.
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.
Great changes in the direction of peace have often come from people who were no great advocates of peace to begin with.
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.
Censorship should never be allowed. One should be able to say anything. But I refuse to let politics be foisted on me.
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.
Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible.
With the death of my father, it wasn’t just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceable mementos of a lost world whose every detail figured in the meaning of the whole.
I believe strongly in an author’s moral responsibility. But his first obligation is to write good books.
Football can teach us that although a team’s individual players may be weak, it can still be successful if it uses common sense. Or that we should not attack anyone physically when we suffer a depressing defeat.
Clocks and calendars do not exist to remind us of the Time we’ve forgotten but to regulate our relations with others and indeed all of society, and this is how we use them.
Morality is probably the last thing one can learn from football.
Are you an angel that approaching you should be so terrifying?
I see Turkey’s future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.