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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 dreamt of light, but hoped for darkness.
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Chicago is not a bad place to live. But the usual story of immigration is the happy fulfillment of human potential in America that is not available anywhere else - it's propaganda, really. It's more complicated than that.
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To write has to be related to a drive inside.
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I know a lot of people in the city, at all levels, horizontally and vertically - and that to me is a privilege, to me as a person but also a writer. I've dined with billionaires, and I play soccer with busboys.
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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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My skin was the border between the world and me.
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There's no bad writing you did something. I was operating inside language, and I did something. I'm not ashamed of it.
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Where can you go from nowhere, except deeper into nowhere?
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I cannot think of a country in which I would be happy with the government and dominant ideology and available propaganda.
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I don't believe in inspiration. I write when I can't avoid writing anymore.
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Nobody deserves death, yet everybody gets it.
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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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What I don't like about America is not necessarily an American thing it's a capitalist thing. This is the Vatican of capitalism.
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If you have information you've got the world by the balls. But we have to convert information into knowledge in order to make it humanly useful.
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I do believe - and I know I shouldn't - that art transcends money and success and any of that. You can still do it if you're not clinging to the notion of nobility.
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I've been a Nick Cave fan since the early '80s when he was part of The Birthday Party thing singing Australian self-destructive rock band and I've always followed his work and loved it.
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When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.
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If you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world-indeed, nowhere is the world.
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We hated pretentiousness it was a form of self-hatred.
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