Balkan Quote by Aleksandar Hemon Download Open image ““One person's garbage is another person's commodity.”” — Aleksandar Hemon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Balkan Philosophical Philosophy Philosophy of life
“One person’s trash is another person’s treasure, try to remember that when people treat you like trash.” — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
“The garbage can is for things that have no importance. If it did have some value, it no longer has any.” — J.R. Rim Copy Share Image
“Waste lies not in the number of possessions but in the failure to enjoy them.” — Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin Copy Share Image
“When trash can be turned into food, man will have an abundance to eat.” — Anthony T. Hincks Copy Share Image
“In today’s world, human desires far supersede human needs. Waste, as you can see, is the result of that disparity.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Yeah, I toss trash out of my car onto the road. But I do it for the good of the economy, because by littering… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“People only value things in their life when it is taken away from them.” — Bushra Satkhed Copy Share Image
“If a dirty mind is a terrible thing to waste, then I am a huge recycler” — Jackie Mcmahon Copy Share Image
“The crap and the trash of the world. Post-consumer human butt wipe that no one would ever go to the trouble to recycle.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures. Sometimes it is a little hard to tell… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I want to change something. I want to stop the germs from attacking my daughters. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Cliché activates the comfortable mental laziness, we sort of revert to the domain of the already-familiar, what we have already imagined so that it… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“The writer does not dare dream of giving the best of his individuality. No, he must never express his anger. The vacillating demands of… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I know a lot of people in the city, at all levels, horizontally and vertically - and that to me is a privilege, to… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for the first… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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,… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
There are studies that have shown that we make decisions, ethical and otherwise, based on the way we imagine ourselves as characters in the… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“Thinking about the weather was one way of shutting out of his mind the appalling bloody human mess sprawled out over the bed of… — Mark Ellis Copy Share Image
“The writer does not dare dream of giving the best of his individuality. No, he must never express his anger. The vacillating demands of… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“Ipak, nerijetko ga je morila sumnja koja opsjeda srce mnogoga umjetnika: da je njegova umjetnost, iskopana iz najtamnijih dubina njegove duše, čisto sranje. Ponekad… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“The glow of the Mathnawî’s inspiration has never been extinguished in Bosnia, even as its people were forced to endure trying hardships, ranging from… — Emin Lelic Copy Share Image
“What’s the harm in forgetting? What does remembering do? Kugel had read that the war in the Balkans was referred to as the War… — Shalom Auslander Copy Share Image
“Jer, ako ima boga, on je samo jedan. I ne treba ti mač i crkva da mu budeš odan. On od tebe jednostavno želi… — Marko Šelić Copy Share Image
“I had always pictured the Albanian peasants as a very fine picturesque race of men wearing spotless native costume, and slung about with fascinating… — Flora Sandes Copy Share Image
“Na to je gucnuo, pa se još gore mrgodio, kao da je optuženik koji sluša presudu u Haagu, i stresao se kao pokisli pas… — Miljenko Jergović Copy Share Image
“I told her I hated normal people and the land of the fucking free and the home of the asshole brave, and I hated… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image