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I've read books in school that were written by ideological rote - they were brainwashers. Therefore, any art, any literature, that has a clearly defined political goal is repellent to me.

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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My skin was the border between the world and me.
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Lord, why did you leave me in these woods?
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The balls do not make a writer.
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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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I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability of the correct decision, to bond in being confounded.
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I want a book to contain a world - indeed the world. Writing is my main means of engagement with the world and I want the scars of that engagement to be left in the language.
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I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.
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We hated pretentiousness it was a form of self-hatred.
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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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Everyone operates within their own domain and obviously those domains overlap to a great extent.
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It was always clear to me that I would have to earn my readers, some I would have to find, some to create.
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