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1 " Once you were in the hands of a Grand Vizier, you were dead. Grand Viziers were always scheming megalomaniacs. It was probably in the job description: " Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted minister. "
2 " Perhaps one day someone from a distant land will listen to this story of mine. Isn't this what lies behind the desire to be inscribed in the pages of a book? Isn't it just for the sake of this delight that sultans and viziers proffer bags of gold to have their histories written? "
― Orhan Pamuk , My Name Is Red