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Sometimes I don't write at all. Someone once asked me, What do you do when you're not writing? And I said, I idle.

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Aleksandar Hemon
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: September 9
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of Sarajevo
Idle
Asked
Write
Someone
Sometimes
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