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I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.
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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To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.
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People will always tell stories. The publishing industry might vanish, but not stories.
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I'm not nervous if I think about something for nine years and then I don't write it. Even if it fades it doesn't concern me. It'll come back if it's worth it.
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I spotted a can in the corner whose red label read SADNESS. Was there so much of it they could can it and sell it? A bolt of pain went through my intestines before I realized that it was not SADNESS but SARDINES.
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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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Cliché activates the comfortable mental laziness, we sort of revert to the domain of the already-familiar, what we have already imagined so that it doesn't seem that bad.
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If I represent the world as it is as harmonious, that's a political position.
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The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.
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I did not intend to stay I had no experience in the United States - I may have been here less than 24 hours - but I knew I would never get inside there. And 'there' not being America necessarily, but that harmonious mode of living that some people are lucky enough to have in this country.
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It's difficult for me to understand how it was possible to live under the Bush regime for eight years and then just roll over and do other things.
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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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I have a hard time imagining a country or a government where I would say, Oh, this is good, where I could live under a government that I respect for a day or a week, even to see what it feels like.
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There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.
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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.
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As long as there are living human beings, there will be language and stories.
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I'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation.
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All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is.
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I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself.
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Everyone operates within their own domain and obviously those domains overlap to a great extent.
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