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Writing is a mode of agency in the world that is different from mere employment. There has to be some sort of ethical or moral drive, even if you are unaware of it.

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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I am just like everybody else...because there is nobody like me in the whole world.
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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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Outsider means I will accept the possibility that I don't have responsibility for what is happening inside my domain.
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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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I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.
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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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The people who listened to rock 'n' roll, I thought, were bound together against the people who didn't listen to rock 'n' roll. That, of course, didn't work at all. Your taste in rock 'n' roll does not say anything about you, morally or otherwise.
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To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.
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My books have been published all over Europe. They read me there, and I want to read them back. I also spend a lot of time in Europe, often meeting writers, and I'm sick of apologizing for the embarrassing shortage of translations in America.
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I think it's interesting, from a creative point of view, to have witnessed the loss of consciousness on a national level and on a cultural level - Bush had 91 percent support in the polls after 9/11. We wanted to kick some ass!
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If you have information you've got the world by the balls. But we have to convert information into knowledge in order to make it humanly useful.
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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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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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There's no bad writing you did something. I was operating inside language, and I did something. I'm not ashamed of it.
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Where can you go from nowhere, except deeper into nowhere?
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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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Nobody deserves death, yet everybody gets it.
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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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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 don't think that everyone should have a philosophical answer to any given question. There are things that need to be done.
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