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I believe people are much more complicated than they can handle.

Aleksandar Hemon

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Aleksandar Hemon
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: September 9
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of Sarajevo
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Complicated
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People

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I like to blow up this notion that all we have to do as writers and artists is represent reality, which is presumably solid and self-evident, with no negotiation of the gap between myself and the world, between this body and this space, which needs narration to close it.
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I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world it allows for creativity.
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The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction.
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I loved you because there was no other place for me to go. We were married because we did not know what else to do with each other. You never knew me, nothing about me, what died inside me, what lived invisibly.
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I don't believe in inspiration. I write when I can't avoid writing anymore.
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An unjust world represented as harmonious is a political position.
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Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever.
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Europe is a rapidly changing place, on every level. Immigration, post-communist transitions, the unification, steady presence of war and conflict, the inescapable challenges to the notion of national literature/culture-it all exerts pressure upon writers who must be aware of the transformational possibilities of the situation.
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It's so internalized, the way your mind works in relation to anything - it's a process, but then it isn't. It's working all the time.
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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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The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.
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Writing is a mode of agency in the world that is different from mere employment. There has to be some sort of ethical or moral drive, even if you are unaware of it.
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To write has to be related to a drive inside.
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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 long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.
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When I found myself in the U.S., and the war was at full swing in Bosnia, I read for survival - it was a means of thought resuscitation.
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I like the idea of a book being a democratic space which readers enter, carrying their own thoughts, and participate in a conversation, or experience of grace.
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As long as there are living human beings, there will be language and stories.
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We hated pretentiousness it was a form of self-hatred.
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I end up writing something every day, since I develop six or seven things at the same time - soccer columns, this and that.
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