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Where can you go from nowhere, except deeper into nowhere?

Aleksandar Hemon

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Aleksandar Hemon
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: September 9
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of Sarajevo
Nowhere
Deeper
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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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No reader owes me anything - I am owed nothing for my noble efforts, because my writing was always unconditional, always coming out of inner necessity.
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I'm bright, but there are lots of bright writers and people everywhere. In no way, at no point do I think I'm better than them.
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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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Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever.
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Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.
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Lord, why did you leave me in these woods?
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I like to blow up this notion that all we have to do as writers and artists is represent reality, which is presumably solid and self-evident, with no negotiation of the gap between myself and the world, between this body and this space, which needs narration to close it.
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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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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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Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.
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I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.
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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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The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.
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Everyone operates within their own domain and obviously those domains overlap to a great extent.
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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'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation.
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Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity
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There are studies that have shown that we make decisions, ethical and otherwise, based on the way we imagine ourselves as characters in the stories of our lives. In other words, if we imagine ourselves brave or crazy or open, we're more likely to make decisions in a given situation based on how we imagine ourselves, whatever the facts may be.
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The balls do not make a writer.
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