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Aleksandar Hemon
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Aleksandar Hemon
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: September 9
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City of Sarajevo
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Anything that might come under arts should not be subject to the whims of the idiotic market because the market's stupid, and it gravitates toward simplicity - towards essentializing things so they can be sold.
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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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I've read books in school that were written by ideological rote - they were brainwashers. Therefore, any art, any literature, that has a clearly defined political goal is repellent to me.
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We hated pretentiousness it was a form of self-hatred.
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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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There are many things I think about that never get to the point of becoming serious. In other words, I try to talk myself out of writing, sometimes for many years, and when I run out of arguments, I write.
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Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write.
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Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.
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There is a logic [to my reading], but I can't define it. I like reading impulsively. I collect books, I have a lot of them, but most of them I have not read yet. I'll read them when they call me from the shelf.
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When I came to America, I was already a writer, already published in Bosnia. I was planning to go back, but I had no choice but to stay here after the civil war, so I enrolled at Northwestern in a master's program and studied American literature.
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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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Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared, and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend.
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I dont make notes for myself because I either lose them or they make no sense to me at all. I once found a piece of paper with the note: everything. Apparently I made a note to myself not to forget everything!
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What you demand from storytelling is a moral - even political - import. I tend to shun that didactic aspect.
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I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.
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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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To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.
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The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.
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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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In the olden days, a memoir was something written by Churchill and people like that, because they had a grand experience and considered it useful for future generations. And then it became what it became - a public purging in which other people have the chance to judge you and then forgive you, perhaps learning something from your sorry example.
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