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Grey’s Anatomy, jbtha 3aljr7.

“… The only thing that matters, the only thing between you and the rest of your career is a test. In a random hotel, in a random city with a random examiner, asking you random questions. Nervous? You should be.”

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I was, as I had begun to discover even then, the sort who could wear the same clothes and eat the same things and go for a hundred years without getting bored so long as I could entertain wild dreams in the privacy of my imagination.
Orhan Pamuk (Istanbul)

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Because for me happiness occurred when the people who loved me were suppressing their demons and I was free to play.
Orhan Pamuk (Istanbul).

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HOW TO ESCAPE FROM A CAR THAT’S FALLEN INTO THE BOSPHORUS

1. Don’t panic. Close your window and wait for your car to fill with water. Make sure the doors are unlocked. Also ensure that all passengers stay very still.
2. If the car continues to sink into the depths of the Bosphorus, pull up your hand brake.
3. Just as your car has almost filled with water, take one final breath of the last layer of air between the water and the car roof, slowly open the doors, and, without panicking, get out of the car.
I’m tempted to add a fourth pointer: With God’s help, your raincoat won’t get caught on the hand brake.
If you know how to swim and manage to find your way up to the surface, you’ll notice that, for all its melancholy, the Bosphorus is very beautiful, no less than life.

Orhan Pamuk (Istanbul)

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When you see a beautiful woman in the street, don’t look at her hatefully as if you’re about to kill her and don’t exhibit excessive longing either; just give her a little smile, avert your eyes, and walk on [1974].
-Istanbul city columnists.

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First I surveyed the little trinkets on the table, her lotions and her perfumes. I picked them up and examined them one by one. I turned her little watch over in my hand. Then I looked at her wardrobe. All those dresses and accessories piled one on top of the other. These things that every woman used to complete herself-they induced in me a painful and desperate loneliness; I felt myself hers, I longed to be hers.

– from the notebooks of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar

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Life can’t be all that bad, I’d think from time to time. Whatever happens, I can always take a walk along the Bosphorus.
Orhan Pamuk (Istanbul)