A Quote by Orhan Pamuk

One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.

Orhan Pamuk

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Attention Busy Catching Class Details Details Of Life Gender Get History Humanity Interested Life Lives Me Middle Other Paying People Realistic Secret Side Society Street Trying Turks Upper Very Voices Way

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Orhan Pamuk
Turkish - Novelist
Born: June 7, 1952

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