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I do believe - and I know I shouldn't - that art transcends money and success and any of that. You can still do it if you're not clinging to the notion of nobility.
Aleksandar Hemon
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Aleksandar Hemon
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: September 9
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City of Sarajevo
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You can see the diversity that pieces in the anthology represent, and then the interconnections-obvious and less obvious-between various stories or between various modes of storytelling. Diversity generates need for conversation, conversation generates common interests, as well as differences. Literature, as a human project, is all about that.
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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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Washington D.C.! Congress is full of self-declared outsiders.
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If you find yourself as a person in unfamiliar territory, you will grasp on to what is already familiar.
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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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Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes.
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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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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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My skin was the border between the world and me.
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I dont make notes for myself because I either lose them or they make no sense to me at all. I once found a piece of paper with the note: everything. Apparently I made a note to myself not to forget everything!
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I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.
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I've been a Nick Cave fan since the early '80s when he was part of The Birthday Party thing singing Australian self-destructive rock band and I've always followed his work and loved it.
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I don't like having a teaching job - office hours and conferences and committees and bosses and all that - but I tend to enjoy teaching, and I design the course in such a way that there'll be pleasure in that.
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I wish I could avoid the people who have threatened me. My favorite threat is that I will be thrown in the River Miljacka, which is at most knee-deep, with my feet bound in cement.
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We hated pretentiousness it was a form of self-hatred.
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I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself.
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I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all that.
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Outsider means I will accept the possibility that I don't have responsibility for what is happening inside my domain.
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Whatever solidarity I have established with other writers individually, it is usually organized around books. We connected as readers, as it were, not writers.
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