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Politics is about ethics and morality, openly or not openly.

Aleksandar Hemon

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Aleksandar Hemon
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: September 9
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of Sarajevo
Ethics
Morality
Politics
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I don't believe in inspiration. I write when I can't avoid writing anymore.
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When I came to America, I was already a writer, already published in Bosnia. I was planning to go back, but I had no choice but to stay here after the civil war, so I enrolled at Northwestern in a master's program and studied American literature.
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My country's main exports are stolen cars and sadness.
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I like to blow up this notion that all we have to do as writers and artists is represent reality, which is presumably solid and self-evident, with no negotiation of the gap between myself and the world, between this body and this space, which needs narration to close it.
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I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world it allows for creativity.
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Washington D.C.! Congress is full of self-declared outsiders.
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For a fight to be productive, or at least relevant, writers should fight over different demands they put upon writing (as an individual, private act) and literature (a network of relations in which we are all involved).
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Whatever solidarity I have established with other writers individually, it is usually organized around books. We connected as readers, as it were, not writers.
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Arabs are a complete abstraction in the propaganda world and all the death and destruction is completely unreal to Americans.
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It's difficult for me to understand how it was possible to live under the Bush regime for eight years and then just roll over and do other things.
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As long as there are living human beings, there will be language and stories.
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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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Everyone operates within their own domain and obviously those domains overlap to a great extent.
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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 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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If you find yourself as a person in unfamiliar territory, you will grasp on to what is already familiar.
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We hated pretentiousness it was a form of self-hatred.
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The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction.
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When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.
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