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We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.
Aleksandar Hemon
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Aleksandar Hemon
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: September 9
Journalist
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City of Sarajevo
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What I was interested in is the lens organizing my sovereign space. I avoid the term outsider and also exile for the same reason. Outsider implies a kind of nobility.
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Washington D.C.! Congress is full of self-declared outsiders.
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I don't believe in inspiration. I write when I can't avoid writing anymore.
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Lord, why did you leave me in these woods?
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I am itching to criticize some well-regarded writers' works, but I am not doing it because I am perfectly aware that my critique could easily be reduced to envy or just plain meanness.
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I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all that.
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People will always tell stories. The publishing industry might vanish, but not stories.
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In some way there is no real life. It's always the story of your life that you're living.
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I loved you because there was no other place for me to go. We were married because we did not know what else to do with each other. You never knew me, nothing about me, what died inside me, what lived invisibly.
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We apply the language that is comforting and comfortable and familiar in order to grasp that which confuses and scares us. That is the first step toward cliché and stereotype, as they're comforting devices. They reduce the confusing world to the already familiar. We're always smoothing out the bumps of actual living to turn it into narratable life.
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Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide the bricks from which we build these cathedrals.
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Outsider means I will accept the possibility that I don't have responsibility for what is happening inside my domain.
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I have been on the margins in terms of having to find a place to live and getting a job, but at some point, and before that point, I always thought no matter where I am, that's the center.
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I'm not nervous if I think about something for nine years and then I don't write it. Even if it fades it doesn't concern me. It'll come back if it's worth it.
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There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.
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Because sometimes you have no control over life and it keeps you far away from who you love.
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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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