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Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared, and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend.

Aleksandar Hemon

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Aleksandar Hemon
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: September 9
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of Sarajevo
Life
Fantasies
Legend
Legends
Shared
Fantasy
Becomes
Memories
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Triviality

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I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability of the correct decision, to bond in being confounded.
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