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The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction.

Aleksandar Hemon

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Aleksandar Hemon
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: September 9
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of Sarajevo
Science
Also
Inescapably
Writing
Limit
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Limits
Fiction
Personal
Beauty
Literature

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Politics is about ethics and morality, openly or not openly.
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Nobody deserves death, yet everybody gets it.
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To write has to be related to a drive inside.
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Wherever there's capitalism there's this inclination toward simplicity. There's also a human need to process complicated things by turning them into something else.
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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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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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Time does nothing but hand you down shabbier and older things.
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I actually didn't listen to the Beatles song 'Nowhere Man' when I was writing my book of the same name. What I listened to a lot was 'Abbey Road.' Its disjointedness and its readiness to confuse only to delight were inspiring to me.
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The more you lose, the more is to be lost, yet it matters less.
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Everyone operates within their own domain and obviously those domains overlap to a great extent.
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There are studies that have shown that we make decisions, ethical and otherwise, based on the way we imagine ourselves as characters in the stories of our lives. In other words, if we imagine ourselves brave or crazy or open, we're more likely to make decisions in a given situation based on how we imagine ourselves, whatever the facts may be.
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I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin and then in the act of confession I beg for your forgiveness and redemption.
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Memory narrativises itself.
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I had an epiphany: I was a loser.
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I have a hard time imagining a country or a government where I would say, Oh, this is good, where I could live under a government that I respect for a day or a week, even to see what it feels like.
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