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In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction there's no word describing that.

Aleksandar Hemon

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Aleksandar Hemon
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: September 9
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of Sarajevo
Literature
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Bosnian
Bosnians
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We dreamt of light, but hoped for darkness.
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I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter pieces in English, and one of them got published in a literary magazine and that's how it got started. After that, graduate school didn't seem very important.
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There is a logic [to my reading], but I can't define it. I like reading impulsively. I collect books, I have a lot of them, but most of them I have not read yet. I'll read them when they call me from the shelf.
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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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It's so internalized, the way your mind works in relation to anything - it's a process, but then it isn't. It's working all the time.
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To write has to be related to a drive inside.
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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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You don't want your neurosurgeon to have doubts about the meaning of it all while he or she is operating on your brain.
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There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.
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In some way there is no real life. It's always the story of your life that you're living.
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Nobody deserves death, yet everybody gets it.
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For people who are displaced, you can reconstruct the story of your life from the objects you have access to, but if you don't have the objects then there are holes in your life. This is why people in Bosnia - if anyone was running back into a burning house it was to salvage photos.
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The world is always greater than your desires plenty is never enough.
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I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability — the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.
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Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever.
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As long as there are living human beings, there will be language and stories.
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Writing is a mode of agency in the world that is different from mere employment. There has to be some sort of ethical or moral drive, even if you are unaware of it.
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I like the idea of a book being a democratic space which readers enter, carrying their own thoughts, and participate in a conversation, or experience of grace.
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I loved you because there was no other place for me to go. We were married because we did not know what else to do with each other. You never knew me, nothing about me, what died inside me, what lived invisibly.
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