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Sait Faik Abasıyanık (1906-1954)

"I liked a number of Sait Faik's stories. He is still concerned with the atmosphere; his people die just when they begin to be alive, just when they start to live. Nevertheless he is a great poet."

"Nowadays I am reading Sait Faik's short stories again. May God have mercy on him, what a great, a real poet he was. I thought about the days when we last saw him for hours. My heart was bleeding..."