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The entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from one room to the next only by exercising our memories and imaginations, but most of us, in our

The entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from one room to the next only by exercising our memories and imaginations, but most of us, in our laziness, rarely exercised these capacities, and forever remained in the same room.

Orhan Pamuk
Memories, Exercise, Doors
Orhan Pamuk (2006). “My Name Is Red”, p.407, Vintage

Heaven was the place where you kept alive the dreams of your memories.

Orhan Pamuk
Dream, Memories, Heaven
Orhan Pamuk (2011). “Snow”, p.296, Faber & Faber

After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform individual happiness into a happiness all can share?

Orhan Pamuk
Memories, Museums, Individual Happiness
Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.462, Faber & Faber

Time had not faded my memories (as I had prayed to God it might), nor had it healed my wounds as it is said always to do. I began each day with the hope that the next day would be better, my recollections a little less pointed, but I would awake to the same pain, as if a black lamp were burning eternally inside me, radiating darkness.

Orhan Pamuk
Pain, Memories, Next Day
Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.219, Faber & Faber

I'm a relatively disciplined writer who composes the whole book before beginning to execute and write it. Of course, you can't hold - you cannot imagine a whole novel before you write it; there are limits to human memory and imagination. Lots of things come to your mind as you write a book, but again, I make a plan, chapter, know the plot.

Orhan Pamuk
Memories, Book, Writing
Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 11, 2009.

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