# Quote — Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

> The drinking of coffee is an absolute sin! Our Glorious Prophet did not partake of coffee because he knew it dulled the intellect, caused ulcers, hernia and sterility; he understood that coffee was nothing but the Devil's ruse.

- Author: [Orhan Pamuk](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orhan-pamuk.md)
- Book: [My Name Is Red](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orhan-pamuk/my-name-is-red.md)
- Page: 12
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Orhan_Pamuk#My_Name_Is_Red_(1998)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/orhan-pamuk/my-name-is-red/the-drinking-of-coffee

## More from this book

> Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don't feel like the Devil.

p. 353 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orhan-pamuk/my-name-is-red/let-me-first.md)

> A letter doesn’t communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it, touching it and fondling it. Thereby, intelligent folk will say, “Go on then, read what the letter tells you!” whereas the dullwitted will say, “Go on then, read what he’s written!”

p. 37 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orhan-pamuk/my-name-is-red/a-letter-doesnt.md)

> I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well.

p. 3 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orhan-pamuk/my-name-is-red/i-am-nothing.md)