Life Quote by 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

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Lord, why did you leave me in these woods?

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I want to change something. I want to stop the germs from attacking my daughters.

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“The writer does not dare dream of giving the best of his individuality. No, he must never express his anger. The vacillating demands of…

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I know a lot of people in the city, at all levels, horizontally and vertically - and that to me is a privilege, to…

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What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for the first…

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I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter…

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It was always clear to me that I would have to earn my readers, some I would have to find, some to create.

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I never thought of myself as an outsider. Because outside of what? You would have to give advantage to this space where you're not,…

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