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My skin was the border between the world and me.
Aleksandar Hemon
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Aleksandar Hemon
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: September 9
Journalist
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City of Sarajevo
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A particular piece of music attaches itself to the piece I'm writing, and there is nothing else I can listen to. Every day I return to the same space to write, the music providing both the walls and the pictures on the walls.
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I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer.
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I am just like everybody else...because there is nobody like me in the whole world.
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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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If I represent the world as it is as harmonious, that's a political position.
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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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Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared, and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend.
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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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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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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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Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever.
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Everyone operates within their own domain and obviously those domains overlap to a great extent.
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