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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 home when they return to see old friends or parents, but then they go home as well when they go to where they live now. Sarajevo is home, Chicago is home.

~Aleksandar Hemon

Topics: Chicago Elsewhere Friends Go Go Home Going Going Home Home Homes Hometown Leaves Life Like Live Might Now Old Old Friends Parents Return Say See Someone Then Two Well Where Who

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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 then there are holes in your life. This is why people in Bosnia - if anyone was running back into a burning house, it was to salvage photos.

~Aleksandar Hemon

Topics: Access Anyone Back Bosnia Burning Displaced Holes House Life Objects People Photos Reconstruct Running Story Then Who Why You Your

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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.

~Aleksandar Hemon

Topics: Between Blur Fact Fiction Like Line Postmodern Reader Some Sort

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I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability - the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.

~Aleksandar Hemon

Topics: About Care Constant Displacement Everything Existence Guaranteed Instability Love Sense Wait I Love

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I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.

~Aleksandar Hemon

Topics: Fiction Grew Mature Most Out Real-Life Situation Stories Tend True Wait

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I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all that.

~Aleksandar Hemon

Topics: Agency America Any Bad Choices Life Make Place Take Which I Can

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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 there. And 'there' not being America necessarily, but that harmonious mode of living that some people are lucky enough to have in this country.

~Aleksandar Hemon

Topics: America Been Being Country Did Enough Experience Get Had Harmonious Here Hours Inside Intend Knew Less Living Lucky May Mode Necessarily Never No Experience People Some Some People States Stay Than United United States Would 24 Hours

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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, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements.

~Aleksandar Hemon

Topics: Achievements Bourgeois Complicated Goals Life Middle-Class Person Pretend Privilege Project Refined Solid Stable You Yourself

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Memory narrativises itself.

~Aleksandar Hemon

Topics: Itself Memory

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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 the act of confession I beg for your forgiveness and redemption.

~Aleksandar Hemon

Topics: Act Beg Cannot Confession Describing Forgiveness Game Here Now Path Redemption Sin Sins Stand Then Whole Your

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Biography

Nationality: Bosniak

Type: Writer

Born: September 9th, 1964

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