I grew up hearing that if it hadn't been for Ataturk, my grandmother would have been 'a covered person' who would have been reliant on a man for her livelihood. Instead, she went to boarding school, wrote a thesis on Balzac, and became a teacher.
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I grew up hearing that if it hadn't been for Ataturk, my grandmother would have been 'a covered person' who would have been reliant on a man for her livelihood. Instead, she went to boarding school, wrote a thesis on Balzac, and became a teacher.
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Awkwardness is the consciousness of a false position.
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You can't invent something you have no epistemological access to. In a way, it's all recombination.
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The first time I held an African drum in my hands was at Koc University in a forest in the northern suburbs of Istanbul.
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If, for a moment, it seemed that September 11th could be identified with Iraq, the illusion was short-lived.
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Every time a meteor comes close to the earth, we all think about the end of the world - but our internal soundtrack doesn't turn off. We're also thinking about pizza or passing a slow tractor or making a turn, and for a magical instant, our lives seem to be in conversation with the stars.
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To think of Tolstoy eating a sandwich is intrinsically kind of funny.
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Lists are based on realism - on the coldly contemplated finitude of resources.
