Irfan Orga Quotes & Sayings

A whole new life at fifty, all because I had become entranced with both the Turkish culture and with Kazim - who one friend called a careening festival of a human being and another called an alcoholic Kurdish carpet salesman. I called him a catalyst. — Irfan Orga

My head was dizzy, but what of that? Float, stupid wooden head, and care nothing for tomorrow. — Irfan Orga

There is something so elemental, so primeval about human tears that the sound of them causes ripples and tremors to course up and down the spine and through the bloodstream; and my own tears, that day, had just that effect upon me. — Irfan Orga