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Orhan Pamuk

"I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city."

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"I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city."

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"Many years before, Ka had explained to me that when a good poet is confronted with difficult facts that he knows to be true but also inimical to poetry, he has no choice but to feel to the margins; it was, he said, this very retreat that allowed him to hear the hidden music that is the source of all art."
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