Elif Batuman's Quotes

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Being in a heterosexual relationship for a woman is always implicitly a...

There are very few things that I have any patience for that are not at least...

My parents were educated in the Turkish system and went straight from high...

My parents were born into a secular country. They met in Turkey's top medical...

The dominant question for us with regard to literature has become, 'What does...

I have always known my mother as an agnostic, less certain than my father...

Why is there an end of the year? Because the calendar imposes numerical order...

At the beginning of 'A Christmas Carol,' Scrooge embodies one of the central...

For much of my adult life, I believed, inaccurately, that I knew the story of...

When you started looking at the life of Tolstoy, there was so much passion...

I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years--it...

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