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I'm not nervous if I think about something for nine years and then I don't write it. Even if it fades it doesn't concern me. It'll come back if it's worth it.

Aleksandar Hemon

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Aleksandar Hemon
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: September 9
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of Sarajevo
Something
Concern
Years
Worth
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Write
Thinking
Doesn
Back
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Fades
Writing
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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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Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes.
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Where can you go from nowhere, except deeper into nowhere?
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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.
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What I don't like about America is not necessarily an American thing it's a capitalist thing. This is the Vatican of capitalism.
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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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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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