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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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Believe
People

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Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide the bricks from which we build these cathedrals.
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I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.
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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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When I was young, I was all about personal sovereignty and that junk, because there was no privacy and the available ideologies were collective, both socialism/communism and nationalism.
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The way I think of my work is that I have to think up the way to tell a story, starting from scratch. The changes in the industry concern me in a general way because I think civilization is doomed.
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It is my belief that we as human beings have a need to tell stories - I think it's evolutionary. So you can think of the short story as a literary form, or you can instead think of stories.
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Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can process language.
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We dreamt of light, but hoped for darkness.
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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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The more you lose, the more is to be lost, yet it matters less.
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Chicago has very few public spaces where people are encouraged to get together. It's partly to prevent riots, and also to segregate a city with a history of racial segregation.
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My country's main exports are stolen cars and sadness.
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I want to change something. I want to stop the germs from attacking my daughters.
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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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I don't believe in inspiration. I write when I can't avoid writing anymore.
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People will always tell stories. The publishing industry might vanish, but not stories.
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If I represent the world as it is as harmonious, that's a political position.
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What I was interested in is the lens organizing my sovereign space. I avoid the term outsider and also exile for the same reason. Outsider implies a kind of nobility.
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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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