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In some way there is no real life. It's always the story of your life that you're living.
Aleksandar Hemon
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Aleksandar Hemon
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: September 9
Journalist
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City of Sarajevo
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I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability of the correct decision, to bond in being confounded.
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We hated pretentiousness it was a form of self-hatred.
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I recognized him then that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to formulate: he had always been complete. He had finished the work of becoming himself, long before any of us could even imagine such a feat was possible.
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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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Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write.
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What you demand from storytelling is a moral - even political - import. I tend to shun that didactic aspect.
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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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Nobody deserves death, yet everybody gets it.
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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.
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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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Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever.
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The world is always greater than your desires plenty is never enough.
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It's difficult for me to understand how it was possible to live under the Bush regime for eight years and then just roll over and do other things.
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I think it's interesting, from a creative point of view, to have witnessed the loss of consciousness on a national level and on a cultural level - Bush had 91 percent support in the polls after 9/11. We wanted to kick some ass!
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To me, the solidarity of readers is far more important than the solidarity of writers, particularly since readers in fact find ways to connect over a book or books, whatever they may be.
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