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

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For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home.

Orhan Pamuk in My Name is Red
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The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western.

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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.

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The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.

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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.

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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.

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My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.

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There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well.

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The first thing I learned at school was that some people are idiots; the second thing I learned was that some are even worse.

Orhan Pamuk in Istanbul: Memories and the City
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