Didem Tapban > Didem's Quotes

“The story is not in the words; it's in the struggle.”
― Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy

“What if you slept
And what if
In your sleep
You dreamed
And what if
In your dream
You went to heaven
And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower
And what if
When you awoke
You had that flower in your hand
Ah, what then?”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Complete Poems

“Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away... and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast.... be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend. Seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common with them, which doesn't necessarily have to alter when you yourself change again and again; when you see them, love life in a form that is not your own and be indulgent toward those who are growing old, who are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.... and don't expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“He had never liked October. Ever since he had first lay in the autumn leaves before his grandmother's house many years ago and heard the wind and saw the empty trees. It had made him cry, without a reason. And a little of that sadness returned each year to him. It always went away with spring.

But, it was a little different tonight. There was a feeling of autumn coming to last a million years.

There would be no spring. ("The October Game")”
― Ray Bradbury, Long After Midnight

“Her şeyin geçip gittiğine, yaşadıklarımızın geçmişte kaldığına kim inandırabilir bizi? Anılarımızı avuç dolusu su gibi her sabah yüzümüze çarpmanın işe yaramayacağına kim inandırabilir?”
― Barış Bıçakçı, Bizim Büyük Çaresizliğimiz

“Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own: under the influence of music I have the illusion of feeling things I don't really feel, of understanding things I don't understand, being able to do things I'm not able to do (...) Can it really be allowable for anyone who feels like it to hypnotize another person, or many other persons, and then do what he likes with them? Particularly if the hypnotist is the first unscrupulous individual who happens to come along?”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata

“If you think of someone enough, you’re sure to meet them again.”
― Haruki Murakami, سامسای عاشق

“If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

“It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have.”
― Truman Capote, A Christmas Memory

“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“You’re wrong. She is a phony. But on the other hand you’re right. She isn’t a phony because she’s a real phony. She believes all this crap she believes. You can’t talk her out of it.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“It may be normal, darling; but I'd rather be natural.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“It’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“You know the days when you get the mean reds?
Paul Varjak: The mean reds. You mean like the blues?
Holly Golightly: No. The blues are because you’re getting fat, and maybe it’s been raining too long. You’re just sad, that’s all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you’re afraid, and you don’t know what you’re afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.”
― Truman Capote

“You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.”
― Truman Capote, Truman Capote: Conversations

“would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories

“I told you: you can make yourself love anybody.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“Don't wanna sleep, don't wanna die, just wanna go a-travellin' through the pastures of the sky”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“Hayatını değil, insanlığını isteseydim elbette korkardın. Ancak bu güzel hediye sana sonsuza kadar verildi. Onu senden geri almam mümkün görünmüyor. Bu bakımdan sen de benim gibi ölümsüzsün. Fakat birçok kişi için, insan olmanın zevkini ve keyfini çıkarmak değil, hayatı sürdürmek ve korumak daha önemli görünüyor. Ne pahasına olursa olsun yaşamaya çalışmakla, doğrusu çok büyük bir mutluluğu kaçırıyorlar. Acı ve ölüm korkuları onları yönetiyor. İşin kötüsü bu korkuya Tanrı diyorlar. Oysa dünyayı korkuyla değil, bir insanın gözleriyle görselerdi, Tanrı'yı görmüş olurlardı.”
― İhsan Oktay Anar, Efrâsiyâb'ın Hikâyeleri

“İmkânsız şey
Şiir yazmak,
Âşıksan eğer;
Ve yazmamak,
Aylardan nisansa.”
― Orhan Veli Kanık, Bütün Şiirleri