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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.
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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I don't believe in inspiration. I write when I can't avoid writing anymore.
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We dreamt of light, but hoped for darkness.
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The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements.
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The more you lose, the more is to be lost, yet it matters less.
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Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.
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Washington D.C.! Congress is full of self-declared outsiders.
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I want to change something. I want to stop the germs from attacking my daughters.
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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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Chicago is not a bad place to live. But the usual story of immigration is the happy fulfillment of human potential in America that is not available anywhere else - it's propaganda, really. It's more complicated than that.
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