
“I am finally ready for the world. I hope it’s ready for me.”
Oluşmak (To Become) Aphorisms (Pan Publishing House, Istanbul, 2011)
Overqualified
“I am finally ready for the world. I hope it’s ready for me.”
Oluşmak (To Become) Aphorisms (Pan Publishing House, Istanbul, 2011)
Context: (Answering "What made you step up to making your own record?") I felt like I may not get opportunities to do this ever again, so it’s about time—it’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There’s almost no such thing as ready. There’s only now. And you may as well do it now. I mean, I say that confidently as if I’m about to go bungee jumping or something—I’m not. I’m not a crazed risk taker. But I do think that, generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.
Note about his Memoirs about a week before he died, as quoted in Famous Last Words (2001) by Alan Bisbort, p. 30.
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