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I am just like everybody else ... because there is nobody like me in the whole world.
— Aleksandar Hemon
Politics is about ethics and morality, openly or not openly.
— Aleksandar Hemon
When the mind imagines its own lack of power, it is saddened by it.
— Aleksandar Hemon
You have to create a form from the life that exists, not the other way around. If it comes out in these little pieces, that's what it is.
— Aleksandar Hemon
Don't you wonder sometimes," sang Bowie all the way to Kinshasa, "about sound and vision?
— Aleksandar Hemon
There's no bad writing; you did something. I was operating inside language, and I did something. I'm not ashamed of it.
— Aleksandar Hemon
All the lives we could live, all the people we will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is what the world is.
— Aleksandar Hemon
But nothing has ever been - nor will it ever be - the way it used to be.
— Aleksandar Hemon
My skin was the border between the world and me.
— Aleksandar Hemon
I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer.
— Aleksandar Hemon
Then everyone would retreat for a nap, after which we would have coffee and cake, sometimes an argument.
— Aleksandar Hemon
What you demand from storytelling is a moral - even political - import. I tend to shun that didactic aspect.
— Aleksandar Hemon
Washington D.C.! Congress is full of self-declared outsiders.
— Aleksandar Hemon
The balls do not make a writer.
— Aleksandar Hemon
Our daughter was born in Chicago, and she's already showing it. The temperature has to be approaching zero for her to wear a hat.
— Aleksandar Hemon
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.
— Aleksandar Hemon
Outsider means "I will accept the possibility that I don't have responsibility for what is happening inside my domain."
— Aleksandar Hemon
The liar looks up toward it, hoping against hope that the voices in his head have told him the truth.
— Aleksandar Hemon
Ordering wine in this place was not unlike ordering milk - he was fortunate there were no real (or any) men at the bar to mock his pussiness.
— Aleksandar Hemon
What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for the first time, every time.
— Aleksandar Hemon
Time does nothing but hand you down shabbier and older things.
— Aleksandar Hemon
I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.
— Aleksandar Hemon
New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publishers/producers, intrigues, and a lot of money.
— Aleksandar Hemon
The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction.
— Aleksandar Hemon
My country's main exports are stolen cars and sadness.
— Aleksandar Hemon
Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write.
— Aleksandar Hemon
Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared, and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend. — Aleksandar Hemon
We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.
— Aleksandar Hemon
It took me about fifteen minutes to get to the hospital, through traffic that existed in an entirely different space-time.
— Aleksandar Hemon
I'm bright, but there are lots of bright writers and people everywhere. In no way, at no point do I think I'm better than them.
— Aleksandar Hemon
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.
— Aleksandar Hemon
The detectives ransack the place with the passion of soldiers fighting a just war.
— Aleksandar Hemon
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.
— Aleksandar Hemon
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.
— Aleksandar Hemon
I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.
— Aleksandar Hemon
Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can process language.
— Aleksandar Hemon
I don't believe in inspiration. I write when I can't avoid writing anymore.
— Aleksandar Hemon
One person's garbage is another person's commodity.
— Aleksandar Hemon
People here snarl and frown a lot, he wrote; he had seen neither a smile nor the sun in months. What is life without beauty, love, and justice?
— Aleksandar Hemon
To write has to be related to a drive inside.
— Aleksandar Hemon
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.
— Aleksandar Hemon
Shiny teeth were footnote to her smile.
— Aleksandar Hemon
Hi, she said, in a whispery voice, and nodded as if to confirm that she really meant it.
— Aleksandar Hemon
It must be taking enormous energy to do her Janet-did-it-again shtick every day; no wonder she was so worn out.
— Aleksandar Hemon
Where can you go from nowhere, except deeper into nowhere?
— Aleksandar Hemon
Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever.
— Aleksandar Hemon
What I don't like about America is not necessarily an American thing; it's a capitalist thing. This is the Vatican of capitalism.
— Aleksandar Hemon
I'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation.
— Aleksandar Hemon
I deigned to suggest to him that it was also the American thing America was nothing if not good intentions. — Aleksandar Hemon
You don't want your neurosurgeon to have doubts about the meaning of it all while he or she is operating on your brain.
— Aleksandar Hemon
Still, it was fair to say that the minimum requirement for a truly enjoyable existence would be unbridled promiscuity.
— Aleksandar Hemon
Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes.
— Aleksandar Hemon
The end of the world might be near, Isador said to her once, but we don't have to rush to reach it.
— Aleksandar Hemon
To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.
— Aleksandar Hemon
I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all that.
— Aleksandar Hemon
In some way there is no real life. It's always the story of your life that you're living.
— Aleksandar Hemon
What is it with boys? How do they slide into fucked-upness so quickly, with such natural ease?
— Aleksandar Hemon
Lord, why did you leave me in these woods?
— Aleksandar Hemon
What would love be without mutually assured oblivion?
— Aleksandar Hemon
I end up writing something every day, since I develop six or seven things at the same time - soccer columns, this and that.
— Aleksandar Hemon
I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.
— Aleksandar Hemon
All the players looked absurdly inept, as though they were expressly drafted to be humiliated, entrepreneurs in the industry of losing.
— Aleksandar Hemon
I don't think that everyone should have a philosophical answer to any given question. There are things that need to be done.
— Aleksandar Hemon
We, as writers, have to figure out a way to create a consciousness in language. It's crazy even to attempt to do that.
— Aleksandar Hemon
Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.
— Aleksandar Hemon
History: the first time a joke, the second time a badly translated joke.
— Aleksandar Hemon
It was a great fucking time, the short era of disaster euphoria, for nothing enhances pleasures and blocks guilt like a looming cataclysm.
— Aleksandar Hemon
It never ends, Pinya says. Every time, you think maybe this here is a different world, but it's all the same: they live, we die. So here it is again.
— Aleksandar Hemon
She was beautiful; my breath was taken; we were still lonely; she said yes.
— Aleksandar Hemon
Home is where somebody notices your absence.
— Aleksandar Hemon
Arabs are a complete abstraction in the propaganda world and all the death and destruction is completely unreal to Americans.
— Aleksandar Hemon
I want to change something. I want to stop the germs from attacking my daughters.
— Aleksandar Hemon
If you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world-indeed, nowhere is the world.
— Aleksandar Hemon
I had an epiphany: I was a loser.
— Aleksandar Hemon
If you find yourself asking: How did I get here? Isador once said, that probably means you are living a life worth living.
— Aleksandar Hemon
Writing is nothing if not carrying the hopeless, backbreaking burden of decisions devoid of consequences.
— Aleksandar Hemon
If you find yourself as a person in unfamiliar territory, you will grasp on to what is already familiar.
— Aleksandar Hemon
We dreamt of light, but hoped for darkness.
— Aleksandar Hemon
If you wait long enough, something will happen - there has never been a time when nothing happened.
— Aleksandar Hemon
There are people who just live and there are people who just survive," Bega had said. "Americans live, we survive.
— Aleksandar Hemon
Tell the fucking story.
— Aleksandar Hemon
When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.
— Aleksandar Hemon
Hope sold, of course, and well; it was the corn syrup of existence, fast burning and addictive.
— Aleksandar Hemon
Because sometimes you have no control over life and it keeps you far away from who you love.
— Aleksandar Hemon
I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.
— Aleksandar Hemon
Nobody deserves death, yet everybody gets it.
— Aleksandar Hemon
We hated pretentiousness; it was a form of self-hatred.
— Aleksandar Hemon
It was always clear to me that I would have to earn my readers, some I would have to find, some to create.
— Aleksandar Hemon
Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.
— Aleksandar Hemon
I will never know you, nothing about you, what has died inside you, what has lived invisibly. I am elsewhere now.
— Aleksandar Hemon
The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough.
— Aleksandar Hemon
Everything after Star Wars is shit.
— Aleksandar Hemon
If my mind and my city were the same thing then I was losing my mind.
— Aleksandar Hemon
If someone imagines that someone loves him, and does not believe he has given any cause for it, he should love in return.
— Aleksandar Hemon
You devise ways to tell a story that complies with your sensibility. Style and method are really extensions of your present sensibility.
— Aleksandar Hemon
