“The liar looks up toward it, hoping against hope that the voices in his head have told him the truth. ” — Aleksandar Hemon Hope Copy Share Image
The more you lose, the more is to be lost, yet it matters less. — Aleksandar Hemon Football Copy Share Image
Because sometimes you have no control over life and it keeps you far away from who you love. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
In some way there is no real life. It's always the story of your life that you're living. — Aleksandar Hemon Life Copy Share Image
An unjust world represented as harmonious is a political position. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there. — Aleksandar Hemon Home Copy Share Image
If I represent the world as it is as harmonious, that's a political position. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“Death comes and takes you away and there is nothing you can do.” — Aleksandar Hemon Death Copy Share Image
Outsider means "I will accept the possibility that I don't have responsibility for what is happening inside my domain." — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I loved you because there was no other place for me to go. We were married because we did not know what… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my… — Aleksandar Hemon Confession Copy Share Image
I started appreciating and valuing different things. Some things just became insufferable to me, and not just literature. I used to like… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
There is a logic [to my reading], but I can't define it. I like reading impulsively. I collect books, I have a… — Aleksandar Hemon Book Copy Share Image
I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise. — Aleksandar Hemon Assumption Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“My dreams were but a means of forgetting, they were the branches tied to the galloping horses of our days, the emptying… — Aleksandar Hemon Dream Copy Share Image
“Uskoro je povjerovao da to što on piše nije poezija, nego nešto drugo, nešto dublje i teže opisivo; nešto što izražava njegov… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
One builds one's life in consistency; one invests it with the belief, however unsupported by reality, that one has always been what… — Aleksandar Hemon Belief Copy Share Image
“Znaš", zamišljeno je rekao Pronek, "mislim da gdje god ti je dom postoji i barica po kojoj znaš da li pada kiša."… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“Rora had heard prayers before, he was well aware that Isus Krist featured in them, he knew the sound well, but knew… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“And did the biblical Lazarus have a mother? What did she do when he was resurrected? Did he bid her good-bye before… — Aleksandar Hemon Lazarus Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you a joke, Rora said. Mujo and his wife, Fata, are in bed. It's late at night. Mujo is… — Aleksandar Hemon Couple Copy Share Image
One of the many conditions that have to be met for a brain to become a mind, and therefore have consciousness, is… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Time does nothing but hand you down shabbier and older things. — Aleksandar Hemon Clock Copy Share Image
“Then everyone would retreat for a nap, after which we would have coffee and cake, sometimes an argument.” — Aleksandar Hemon Argument Copy Share Image
Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes. — Aleksandar Hemon About yourself Copy Share Image
“Hi," she said, in a whispery voice, and nodded as if to confirm that she really meant it.” — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“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 Apocalypse Copy Share Image
I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all. — Aleksandar Hemon Football Copy Share Image
Washington D.C.! Congress is full of self-declared outsiders. — Aleksandar Hemon Congress Copy Share Image
I am just like everybody else...because there is nobody like me in the whole world. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“I know as well as anybody how hard it is to live after a grave loss. But life needs to go on,… — Aleksandar Hemon Death Copy Share Image
“It never ends, Pinya says. Every time, you think maybe this here is a different world, but it's all the same: they… — Aleksandar Hemon Death Copy Share Image
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 Ashamed Copy Share Image
What I was interested in is the lens organizing my sovereign space. I avoid the term outsider and also exile for the… — Aleksandar Hemon Exile Copy Share Image
Literature is always something - it is either story or poetry, ideally both. That is, you always know what it is and… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all… — Aleksandar Hemon Life Copy Share Image
![“There is a logic [to my reading], but I can't define it. I like reading impulsively. I collect books, I have a lot of them, but most of them I have not read yet. I'll read them when they call me from the shelf.” quote by Aleksandar Hemon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9fc/aleksandar-hemon-1490_book_there-is-a-logic-to-my-reading-but-i-can_423313.jpg)
