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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.
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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We hated pretentiousness it was a form of self-hatred.
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Despite all that I know rationally, and everything that I can put into words, I can say that I have difficulty giving up the notion of the nobility of art.
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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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There is a point in fighting. There is a point in struggle. Not wholesale revolution, maybe, that might not be possible, an absolutely just society, but there are plenty of spaces and places where it's worth putting up a fight.
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I hate traveling and being away from my family. But I like meeting my readers, as what I write is actualized in them. Those encounters are exhilarating to me.
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Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever.
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Politics is about ethics and morality, openly or not openly.
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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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You don't want your neurosurgeon to have doubts about the meaning of it all while he or she is operating on your brain.
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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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