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Elif Batuman
“It was hard to decide on a literature course. Everything the professors said seemed to be somehow beside the point. You wanted to know why Anna had to die, and instead they told you that 19th century Russian landowners felt conflicted about whether they were really a part of Europe. The implication was that it was somehow naive to want to talk about anything interesting, or to think that you would ever know anything important.”
Elif Batuman, The Idiot

Oruç Aruoba
“Sana kendimden bir şey getirmiştim.
Bir yerde oturuyorduk, konuşarak. Nasıl olduysa, garsonlar masayı toplarken, getirdiğimi de alıp kaldırmışlar. Çıktık. Bir araca tam bindik ki, senin aklına geldi - çantana bir baktın, ve hemen, "İniyoruz" dedin. İndik. Geri gidip bulup aldık sana getirdiğimi; araç sırasına geri döndük.
O, kesin, "İniyoruz" demen, belirleyiciydi - içime ışık dolmuştu, sen bunu söyleyince-
Her şeyi, apaçık, ortaya koyuyordu:-
Önem veriyordun - benim olan; benden sana gelen, önemliydi senin için- kararlıydın:-
En temelidir bu, ilişkinin: önem vermekte kararlı olmak.
Bunun önemi de, hiçbir öndüşünce taşımamasında : öyle, kendiliğinden, oluşuvermesinde; sanki, hiç düşünülmeden, hesaplanmadan, amaçlanmadan, yapılıvermesinde.
İlişkinin kendisi gibi...”
Oruç Aruoba, ile

Susan Sontag
“Opinions are like some kind of crust that grows on top of things and you want to kind of peel them off.”
Susan Sontag

Maggie Nelson
“If he hadn't lied to you, he would have been a different person than he is.' She is trying to get me to see that although I thought I loved this man very completely for exactly who he was, I was in fact blind to the man he actually was, or is.”
Maggie Nelson, Bluets

Elif Batuman
“I tried to hang out with my peer group, Defne, Murat and Yudum, but was unable to assimilate myself to their mode of being. They seemed always to be waiting for something, for the removal of some obstacle-- for a business to open, for the sun to move, or for someone to come back from going to get something. Whenever they actually did anything, like go in the water, eat lunch, or walk somewhere, they did it in an abstracted, halfhearted way, as if to show that this was just a side diversion from the main business of waiting. All they talked about was when the thing they were waiting for was going to happen, But whenever that thing did happen, nothing seemed to change. The sense of provisionality was the same, it just gradually found a new object.”
Elif Batuman, The Idiot

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