Aleksandar Hemon Quotes

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• Memory narrativises itself.
• 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.
• Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity
• Time does nothing but hand you down shabbier and older things.
• I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.
• The incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth - reality is the fastest American commodity.
• It is so much easier to deal with the dead than with the living. The dead are out of the way, merely characters from stories…
• The more you lose, the more is to be lost, yet it matters less.
• Where can you go from nowhere, except deeper into nowhere?
• 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…
• I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability — the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed…
• 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…
• The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.
• Lord, why did you leave me in these woods?
• I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.
• I had an epiphany: I was a loser.
• A particular piece of music attaches itself to the piece I'm writing, and there is nothing else I can listen to. Every day I return…
• I actually didn't listen to the Beatles song 'Nowhere Man' when I was writing my book of the same name. What I listened to a…
• We hated pretentiousness; it was a form of self-hatred.
• I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin…

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