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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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"These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented."
Society
"The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone."
Power
"I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries."
Being
"There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well."
Talk
"My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west."
Values
"At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with."
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"The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western."
Experience
"Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe."
Being
"I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city."
People
"The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation."
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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."
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"And then, just when you think that you have experienced all the wonders that this world has to offer, you round a peak and suddenly think you're doing the whole thing over again, but this time on drugs."
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Personal Development
"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
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"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."
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"How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain."
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Personal Development
"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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Personal Development
"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."
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Personal Development
"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."
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Personal Development
"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord."
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