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The balls do not make a writer.

Aleksandar Hemon

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Aleksandar Hemon
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: September 9
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of Sarajevo
Balls
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Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes.
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Europe has never been a monolithic space, it contains a lot of people, a lot of languages and infinite supplies of history. I didn't need to do anything to showcase diversity. It is a condition of life and art in Europe, contained in every random sample.
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Politics is about ethics and morality, openly or not openly.
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I'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation.
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Nobody deserves death, yet everybody gets it.
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My skin was the border between the world and me.
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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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The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.
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As long as there are living human beings, there will be language and stories.
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One of the many conditions that have to be met for a brain to become a mind, and therefore have consciousness, is 'the analog I' around which all the simultaneous inflow of sensations and stimulations are reflected and organized.
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Because sometimes you have no control over life and it keeps you far away from who you love.
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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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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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Wherever there's capitalism there's this inclination toward simplicity. There's also a human need to process complicated things by turning them into something else.
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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 do believe - and I know I shouldn't - that art transcends money and success and any of that. You can still do it if you're not clinging to the notion of nobility.
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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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Memory narrativises itself.
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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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We hated pretentiousness it was a form of self-hatred.
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