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A particular piece of music attaches itself to the piece I'm writing, and there is nothing else I can listen to. Every day I return to the same space to write, the music providing both the walls and the pictures on the walls.

Aleksandar Hemon

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Aleksandar Hemon
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: September 9
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of Sarajevo
Else
Piece
Music
Listen
Nothing
Wall
Writing
Return
Every
Pieces
Attaches
Particular
Providing
Space
Walls
Write
Pictures

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