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All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is.

Aleksandar Hemon

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Aleksandar Hemon
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: September 9
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of Sarajevo
Never
World
People
Everywhere
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Sometimes I don't write at all. Someone once asked me, What do you do when you're not writing? And I said, I idle.
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The world is always greater than your desires plenty is never enough.
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New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publishers/producers, intrigues, and a lot of money.
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It was always clear to me that I would have to earn my readers, some I would have to find, some to create.
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Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.
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I know a lot of people in the city, at all levels, horizontally and vertically - and that to me is a privilege, to me as a person but also a writer. I've dined with billionaires, and I play soccer with busboys.
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Nobody deserves death, yet everybody gets it.
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If you find yourself as a person in unfamiliar territory, you will grasp on to what is already familiar.
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In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction there's no word describing that.
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I don't like having a teaching job - office hours and conferences and committees and bosses and all that - but I tend to enjoy teaching, and I design the course in such a way that there'll be pleasure in that.
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I think about the story while I think about other things. This is an important part of the process: I look at it sideways. If I look straight at it, it produces nothing other than what seem like complicated, brilliant designs that fall apart the following morning. In some way stories mature when you're not looking.
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Chicago is not a bad place to live. But the usual story of immigration is the happy fulfillment of human potential in America that is not available anywhere else - it's propaganda, really. It's more complicated than that.
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Arabs are a complete abstraction in the propaganda world and all the death and destruction is completely unreal to Americans.
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Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can process language.
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You can see the diversity that pieces in the anthology represent, and then the interconnections-obvious and less obvious-between various stories or between various modes of storytelling. Diversity generates need for conversation, conversation generates common interests, as well as differences. Literature, as a human project, is all about that.
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There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.
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Our daughter was born in Chicago, and she's already showing it. The temperature has to be approaching zero for her to wear a hat.
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It's difficult for me to understand how it was possible to live under the Bush regime for eight years and then just roll over and do other things.
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Where can you go from nowhere, except deeper into nowhere?
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I do believe - and I know I shouldn't - that art transcends money and success and any of that. You can still do it if you're not clinging to the notion of nobility.
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