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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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Aleksandar Hemon
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: September 9
Journalist
Novelist
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Writer
City of Sarajevo
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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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Our daughter was born in Chicago, and she's already showing it. The temperature has to be approaching zero for her to wear a hat.
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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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As long as there are living human beings, there will be language and stories.
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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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Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write.
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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'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 suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world it allows for creativity.
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Nobody deserves death, yet everybody gets it.
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When I was young, I was all about personal sovereignty and that junk, because there was no privacy and the available ideologies were collective, both socialism/communism and nationalism.
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Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.
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The balls do not make a writer.
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Chicago has very few public spaces where people are encouraged to get together. It's partly to prevent riots, and also to segregate a city with a history of racial segregation.
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Europe is a rapidly changing place, on every level. Immigration, post-communist transitions, the unification, steady presence of war and conflict, the inescapable challenges to the notion of national literature/culture-it all exerts pressure upon writers who must be aware of the transformational possibilities of the situation.
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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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I started appreciating and valuing different things. Some things just became insufferable to me, and not just literature. I used to like horror movies and now I couldn't stand them.
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There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.
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My country's main exports are stolen cars and sadness.
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Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes.
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