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The world is always greater than your desires plenty is never enough.

Aleksandar Hemon

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Aleksandar Hemon
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: September 9
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of Sarajevo
Plenty
Greater
Desire
Enough
Always
Never
World
Contentment
Desires

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One builds one's life in consistency one invests it with the belief, however unsupported by reality, that one has always been what one is now, that even in one's distant past one could recognize the seed from which this doomed flower has bloomed.
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I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.
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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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Whatever solidarity I have established with other writers individually, it is usually organized around books. We connected as readers, as it were, not writers.
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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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Everyone operates within their own domain and obviously those domains overlap to a great extent.
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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.
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I'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation.
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Time does nothing but hand you down shabbier and older things.
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There's something in psychology called the narrative paradigm, which essentially means that we think of our lives as stories in which we are the main characters.
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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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You devise ways to tell a story that complies with your sensibility. Style and method are really extensions of your present sensibility.
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My skin was the border between the world and me.
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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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We, as writers, have to figure out a way to create a consciousness in language. It's crazy even to attempt to do that.
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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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Chicago has very few public spaces where people are encouraged to get together. It's partly to prevent riots, and also to segregate a city with a history of racial segregation.
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The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements.
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It's not that war crimes stop as soon as a novel about them is published. Literature operates slowly, it is always inching toward bliss, never quite getting there.
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My books have been published all over Europe. They read me there, and I want to read them back. I also spend a lot of time in Europe, often meeting writers, and I'm sick of apologizing for the embarrassing shortage of translations in America.
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