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Everyone operates within their own domain and obviously those domains overlap to a great extent.
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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If you find yourself as a person in unfamiliar territory, you will grasp on to what is already familiar.
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Lord, why did you leave me in these woods?
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Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.
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The incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth - reality is the fastest American commodity.
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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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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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Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide the bricks from which we build these cathedrals.
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The more you lose, the more is to be lost, yet it matters less.
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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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Time does nothing but hand you down shabbier and older things.
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Outsider means I will accept the possibility that I don't have responsibility for what is happening inside my domain.
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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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