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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.

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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We apply the language that is comforting and comfortable and familiar in order to grasp that which confuses and scares us. That is the first step toward cliché and stereotype, as they're comforting devices. They reduce the confusing world to the already familiar. We're always smoothing out the bumps of actual living to turn it into narratable life.
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I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.
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I don't think that everyone should have a philosophical answer to any given question. There are things that need to be done.
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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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I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.
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Whatever solidarity I have established with other writers individually, it is usually organized around books. We connected as readers, as it were, not writers.
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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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Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever.
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Lord, why did you leave me in these woods?
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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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You have to suspend thinking in narratives. The moment you are conscious of yourself the gap opens up. And in this gap, stories are generated.
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Washington D.C.! Congress is full of self-declared outsiders.
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When I found myself in the U.S., and the war was at full swing in Bosnia, I read for survival - it was a means of thought resuscitation.
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I want to change something. I want to stop the germs from attacking my daughters.
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Sometimes I don't write at all. Someone once asked me, What do you do when you're not writing? And I said, I idle.
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I am just like everybody else...because there is nobody like me in the whole world.
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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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An unjust world represented as harmonious is a political position.
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