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Elif Batuman Quote: “All I was ever trying to do when I wrote, I realized, was to show how much I saw and understood.”

101. “All I was ever trying to do when I wrote, I realized, was to show how much I saw and understood.”

— Elif Batuman

Elif Batuman Quote: “What kind of cretins cared more about hammering out a string of inheritance than about discovering universal truths? Historians, that was what kind. They would only be happy when they had translated every miraculous book into a product of its historical moment.”

102. “What kind of cretins cared more about hammering out a string of inheritance than about discovering universal truths? Historians, that was what kind. They would only be happy when they had translated every miraculous book into a product of its historical moment.”

— Elif Batuman

Elif Batuman Quote: “Anyway, I didn’t want to be “nurtured” in an “environment” that was set up for me to “excel.” I wanted to do whatever was the most real and rigorous.”

103. “Anyway, I didn’t want to be “nurtured” in an “environment” that was set up for me to “excel.” I wanted to do whatever was the most real and rigorous.”

— Elif Batuman

Elif Batuman Quote: “I was going to remember, or discover, where everything came from. I was going to do the subtle, monstrous thing where you figured out what you were doing, and why.”

104. “I was going to remember, or discover, where everything came from. I was going to do the subtle, monstrous thing where you figured out what you were doing, and why.”

— Elif Batuman

Elif Batuman Quote: “There are certain books that one remembers together with the material circumstances of reading: how long it took, the time of year, the color of the cover.”

105. “There are certain books that one remembers together with the material circumstances of reading: how long it took, the time of year, the color of the cover.”

— Elif Batuman

Elif Batuman Quote: “Quality of life”: as if we knew it, and could measure it. I wanted to know what it was: the quality of life.”

106. “Quality of life”: as if we knew it, and could measure it. I wanted to know what it was: the quality of life.”

— Elif Batuman

Elif Batuman Quote: “In the past, my goal in conversation had been to accurately represent the things that I thought, and to deploy these thoughts in relation to the things that other people said, while exercising caution to not betray ignorant or antisocial ideas, and the whole thing had been so much to think about that in the end I usually hadn’t said anything at all.”

107. “In the past, my goal in conversation had been to accurately represent the things that I thought, and to deploy these thoughts in relation to the things that other people said, while exercising caution to not betray ignorant or antisocial ideas, and the whole thing had been so much to think about that in the end I usually hadn’t said anything at all.”

— Elif Batuman

Elif Batuman Quote: “Without meaning to, I looked into his eyes. What I saw, it was beyond my pay grade. I went out to get a taxi.”

108. “Without meaning to, I looked into his eyes. What I saw, it was beyond my pay grade. I went out to get a taxi.”

— Elif Batuman

Elif Batuman Quote: “Wasn’t that how people in other countries viewed all American people – with their innocence, their Disney, their inability to drive stick shift? With the way they were protected – the way I was protected – from so much of the “reality” that happened elsewhere?”

109. “Wasn’t that how people in other countries viewed all American people – with their innocence, their Disney, their inability to drive stick shift? With the way they were protected – the way I was protected – from so much of the “reality” that happened elsewhere?”

— Elif Batuman

Elif Batuman Quote: “I thought we should be rewriting the categories and trying to think of a better organization than whichever one we happened to have inherited.”

110. “I thought we should be rewriting the categories and trying to think of a better organization than whichever one we happened to have inherited.”

— Elif Batuman

Elif Batuman Quote: “Of course, you couldn’t have a party without alcohol; I understood this now. I understood the reason. The reason was that people were intolerable.”

111. “Of course, you couldn’t have a party without alcohol; I understood this now. I understood the reason. The reason was that people were intolerable.”

— Elif Batuman

Elif Batuman Quote: “I would never write about that. It was enough I had wasted the time once. I would never waste more time by writing about it.”

112. “I would never write about that. It was enough I had wasted the time once. I would never waste more time by writing about it.”

— Elif Batuman

Elif Batuman Quote: “Music was the only other thing that was layered like that, so much that each new component changed the meaning of the whole. And so much building up and holding back-promising and withholding, and withholding, and withholding. You’re going to die without it. You’re never going to get it. You’re going to die. Here it is.”

113. “Music was the only other thing that was layered like that, so much that each new component changed the meaning of the whole. And so much building up and holding back-promising and withholding, and withholding, and withholding. You’re going to die without it. You’re never going to get it. You’re going to die. Here it is.”

— Elif Batuman

Elif Batuman Quote: “I felt dissatisfied, as if I was failing to capitalize on some advantage I had from “being” Turkish – one that would compensate for the hassle of having a name and appearance that had always required explanation. It had, I realized, been a real disappointment to get to Turkey and to discover that my name and appearance still required constant explanation.”

114. “I felt dissatisfied, as if I was failing to capitalize on some advantage I had from “being” Turkish – one that would compensate for the hassle of having a name and appearance that had always required explanation. It had, I realized, been a real disappointment to get to Turkey and to discover that my name and appearance still required constant explanation.”

— Elif Batuman

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