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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
Journalist
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City of Sarajevo
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God knows our despair. God wants His chosen people to live in peace. God loves life, cares less about death. We need to live. I want to live, I want my children to live. Everyone I know wants to live. You have to ask yourself what is more important to you, life is death. What is this world about - life or death?
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Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write.
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I end up writing something every day, since I develop six or seven things at the same time - soccer columns, this and that.
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You don't want your neurosurgeon to have doubts about the meaning of it all while he or she is operating on your brain.
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I am just like everybody else...because there is nobody like me in the whole world.
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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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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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I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability — the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.
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When I was young, I was all about personal sovereignty and that junk, because there was no privacy and the available ideologies were collective, both socialism/communism and nationalism.
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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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Because sometimes you have no control over life and it keeps you far away from who you love.
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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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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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What I was interested in is the lens organizing my sovereign space. I avoid the term outsider and also exile for the same reason. Outsider implies a kind of nobility.
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No reader owes me anything - I am owed nothing for my noble efforts, because my writing was always unconditional, always coming out of inner necessity.
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I actually didn't listen to the Beatles song 'Nowhere Man' when I was writing my book of the same name. What I listened to a lot was 'Abbey Road.' Its disjointedness and its readiness to confuse only to delight were inspiring to me.
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