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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
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Ethics
Morality
Politics

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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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The more you lose, the more is to be lost, yet it matters less.
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I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer.
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The balls do not make a writer.
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The world is always greater than your desires plenty is never enough.
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You have to suspend thinking in narratives. The moment you are conscious of yourself the gap opens up. And in this gap, stories are generated.
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There is a logic [to my reading], but I can't define it. I like reading impulsively. I collect books, I have a lot of them, but most of them I have not read yet. I'll read them when they call me from the shelf.
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Where can you go from nowhere, except deeper into nowhere?
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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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To write has to be related to a drive inside.
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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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Literature is always something - it is either story or poetry, ideally both. That is, you always know what it is and even if the interpretation is not available, the experience of language is.
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I want to change something. I want to stop the germs from attacking my daughters.
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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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I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.
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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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Lord, why did you leave me in these woods?
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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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Our daughter was born in Chicago, and she's already showing it. The temperature has to be approaching zero for her to wear a hat.
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I spotted a can in the corner whose red label read SADNESS. Was there so much of it they could can it and sell it? A bolt of pain went through my intestines before I realized that it was not SADNESS but SARDINES.
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