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One builds one's life in consistency one invests it with the belief, however unsupported by reality, that one has always been what one is now, that even in one's distant past one could recognize the seed from which this doomed flower has bloomed.

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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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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There are many things I think about that never get to the point of becoming serious. In other words, I try to talk myself out of writing, sometimes for many years, and when I run out of arguments, I write.
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If you find yourself as a person in unfamiliar territory, you will grasp on to what is already familiar.
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God knows our despair. God wants His chosen people to live in peace. God loves life, cares less about death. We need to live. I want to live, I want my children to live. Everyone I know wants to live. You have to ask yourself what is more important to you, life is death. What is this world about - life or death?
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If I represent the world as it is as harmonious, that's a political position.
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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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Outsider means I will accept the possibility that I don't have responsibility for what is happening inside my domain.
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I want to change something. I want to stop the germs from attacking my daughters.
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In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction there's no word describing that.
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The balls do not make a writer.
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Where can you go from nowhere, except deeper into nowhere?
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People will always tell stories. The publishing industry might vanish, but not stories.
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Washington D.C.! Congress is full of self-declared outsiders.
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I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all that.
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The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements.
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The incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth - reality is the fastest American commodity.
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