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We dreamt of light, but hoped for darkness.

Aleksandar Hemon

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Aleksandar Hemon
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: September 9
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of Sarajevo
Dreamt
Hoped
Darkness
Light

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I'm bright, but there are lots of bright writers and people everywhere. In no way, at no point do I think I'm better than them.
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We hated pretentiousness it was a form of self-hatred.
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There are moments in life when it is all turned inside out--what is real becomes unreal, what is unreal becomes tangible, and all your levelheaded efforts to keep a tight ontological control are rendered silly and indulgent.
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We, as writers, have to figure out a way to create a consciousness in language. It's crazy even to attempt to do that.
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Lord, why did you leave me in these woods?
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I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all that.
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I have been on the margins in terms of having to find a place to live and getting a job, but at some point, and before that point, I always thought no matter where I am, that's the center.
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You devise ways to tell a story that complies with your sensibility. Style and method are really extensions of your present sensibility.
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I am just like everybody else...because there is nobody like me in the whole world.
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I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.
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The funny thing is that in Bosnia there are no words that are equivalent to fiction and nonfiction. From the storytelling point of view, the difference is artificial.
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Every artist, writers included, have an ethics and an aesthetics, whether they can formulate them or not. I happen to think that it is good to be able to formulate - it is good to know what you are doing and to be able to talk about it.
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The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs and reverse its curses simply because the trees are coming into leaf.
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One builds one's life in consistency one invests it with the belief, however unsupported by reality, that one has always been what one is now, that even in one's distant past one could recognize the seed from which this doomed flower has bloomed.
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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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I'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation.
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Washington D.C.! Congress is full of self-declared outsiders.
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