Tuesday, October 17, 2006

News at Eleven: These families into which we were born,

these countries and cities to which the lottery of life has assigned us--they expect love from us, and in the end we do love them from the bottom of our hearts; but did we perhaps deserve better? [--Orhan Pamuk in "Istanbul: Memories and the City" translated by Maureen Freely]

from The Washington Post: Turkish Novelist Wins Nobel Prize

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