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There is a point in fighting. There is a point in struggle. Not wholesale revolution, maybe, that might not be possible, an absolutely just society, but there are plenty of spaces and places where it's worth putting up a fight.

Aleksandar Hemon

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Aleksandar Hemon
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: September 9
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of Sarajevo
Maybe
Plenty
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Fighting
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Places
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The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs and reverse its curses simply because the trees are coming into leaf.
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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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My country's main exports are stolen cars and sadness.
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My skin was the border between the world and me.
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I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.
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It is so much easier to deal with the dead than with the living. The dead are out of the way, merely characters from stories about the past, never again unreadable, no misunderstandings possible, the pain coming from them stable and manageable. nor do you have to explain yourself to them, to justify the fact of your life.
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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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Nobody deserves death, yet everybody gets it.
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For people who are displaced, you can reconstruct the story of your life from the objects you have access to, but if you don't have the objects then there are holes in your life. This is why people in Bosnia - if anyone was running back into a burning house it was to salvage photos.
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If I represent the world as it is as harmonious, that's a political position.
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Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.
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Everyone operates within their own domain and obviously those domains overlap to a great extent.
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The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.
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It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home.
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In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction there's no word describing that.
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