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I'm bright, but there are lots of bright writers and people everywhere. In no way, at no point do I think I'm better than them.

Aleksandar Hemon

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Aleksandar Hemon
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: September 9
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of Sarajevo
People
Lots
Everywhere
Writers
Point
Better
Way
Think
Thinking
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All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is.
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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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Washington D.C.! Congress is full of self-declared outsiders.
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Lord, why did you leave me in these woods?
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We dreamt of light, but hoped for darkness.
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I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.
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Despite all that I know rationally, and everything that I can put into words, I can say that I have difficulty giving up the notion of the nobility of art.
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It was always clear to me that I would have to earn my readers, some I would have to find, some to create.
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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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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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I had an epiphany: I was a loser.
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Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide the bricks from which we build these cathedrals.
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It's not that war crimes stop as soon as a novel about them is published. Literature operates slowly, it is always inching toward bliss, never quite getting there.
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An unjust world represented as harmonious is a political position.
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I'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation.
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I've never meditated for a moment in my life. I don't know how it works. But one of the things you have to do to put yourself in the meditating mode is stop narrating yourself to yourself.
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I've read books in school that were written by ideological rote - they were brainwashers. Therefore, any art, any literature, that has a clearly defined political goal is repellent to me.
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I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.
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