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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
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of Sarajevo
Skin
Skins
World
Border
Borders

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I recognized him then that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to formulate: he had always been complete. He had finished the work of becoming himself, long before any of us could even imagine such a feat was possible.
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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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There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.
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Lord, why did you leave me in these woods?
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Anything that might come under arts should not be subject to the whims of the idiotic market because the market's stupid, and it gravitates toward simplicity - towards essentializing things so they can be sold.
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I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.
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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 never thought of myself as an outsider. Because outside of what? You would have to give advantage to this space where you're not, to think of it as sovereign because you're not there. I was always in the center of where I needed to be.
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The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction.
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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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Arabs are a complete abstraction in the propaganda world and all the death and destruction is completely unreal to Americans.
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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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To write has to be related to a drive inside.
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People will always tell stories. The publishing industry might vanish, but not stories.
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The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.
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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 have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that they're going home when they return to see old friends or parents, but then they go home as well when they go to where they live now. Sarajevo is home, Chicago is home.
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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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I like to blow up this notion that all we have to do as writers and artists is represent reality, which is presumably solid and self-evident, with no negotiation of the gap between myself and the world, between this body and this space, which needs narration to close it.
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