Top 100 Elif Batuman Quotes (2024 Update)
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Elif Batuman Quote: “For some reason, the image that came to my mind was of Peter explaining to someone in a quiet, serious voice that Selin’s problems had been more serious than anyone had realized. No way, I thought. I was going to stick around and bury those people.”

101. “For some reason, the image that came to my mind was of Peter explaining to someone in a quiet, serious voice that Selin’s problems had been more serious than anyone had realized. No way, I thought. I was going to stick around and bury those people.”

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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.”

102. “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

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.”

103. “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: “So what do you think about love?′ I asked Mesut in a casual tone. ‘Love is to get caught on something,’ he said readily. ‘It’s to be unable to forget.”

104. “So what do you think about love?′ I asked Mesut in a casual tone. ‘Love is to get caught on something,’ he said readily. ‘It’s to be unable to forget.”

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Elif Batuman Quote: “I’m going to become whatever I was going to become.”

105. “I’m going to become whatever I was going to become.”

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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.”

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

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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.”

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

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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.”

108. “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.”

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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.”

109. “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: “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.”

110. “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: “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.”

111. “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: “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.”

112. “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: “Later we were at another party in a dorm. Why did all parties sound and smell the same, even though the component people were different? It was as if all the different individuals came together and formed the eternal entity Party Person.”

113. “Later we were at another party in a dorm. Why did all parties sound and smell the same, even though the component people were different? It was as if all the different individuals came together and formed the eternal entity Party Person.”

— Elif Batuman

Elif Batuman Quote: “Previously, I had believed that the sadness came first, and tears were a result, but the reality was clearly more complicated, because once the tears didn’t come, the sadness somehow bottomed out, became shallower. What if the way Zoloft worked was just by dehydrating you?”

114. “Previously, I had believed that the sadness came first, and tears were a result, but the reality was clearly more complicated, because once the tears didn’t come, the sadness somehow bottomed out, became shallower. What if the way Zoloft worked was just by dehydrating you?”

— Elif Batuman

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