Orhan Pamuk
Novelist; Nobel laureate in Literature, 2006
Actually I was angry at my father because he had not led a life like mine, because he had never quarrelled with his life, and had spent his life happily laughing with his friends and his loved ones. But part of me knew that I could also say that I was not so much ‘angry’ as ‘jealous’, that the second word was more accurate, and this, too, made me uneasy.
Recorded
Swedish Academy, Stockholm, 7 December 2006, The Nobel Foundation (nobelprize.org), 7 December 2006
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