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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 31 quotes by Aleksandar Hemon Aleksandar Hemon (born September 9, 1964) is a Bosnian American fiction writer, essayist, and critic. He is the winner of a MacArthur Foundation grant. He has written five books: The Book of My Lives (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2013); Love and Obstacles: Stories (New York: Riverhead Books, 2009); The Lazarus Project: A Novel (New York: Riverhead Books, 2008), which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book... Read full biography of Aleksandar Hemon → 1 2 3 Ctrl → I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that they're going... → 0 For people who are displaced, you can reconstruct the story of your life from the objects you have access to, but if you don't have the objects... → 0 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 and then in... → 0 I've been a Nick Cave fan since the early '80s when he was part of The Birthday Party thing singing Australian self-destructive rock band and... → 0 The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid... → 0 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. 0 I wish I could avoid the people who have threatened me. My favorite threat is that I will be thrown in the River Miljacka, which is at most... → 0 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. 0 Memory narrativises itself. 0 To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes. 0 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 lot was... → 0 I did not intend to stay; I had no experience in the United States - I may have been here less than 24 hours - but I knew I would never get inside... → 0 I don't make notes for myself because I either lose them or they make no sense to me at all. I once found a piece of paper with the note:... → 0 1 2 3 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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