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Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

Aleksandar Hemon

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Aleksandar Hemon
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: September 9
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of Sarajevo
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Projecting
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