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Aleksandar Hemon Quotes

Arabs are a complete abstraction in the propaganda world and all the death and destruction is completely unreal to Americans Picture Quote #1

To me there’s no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they’re just slightly different shapes Picture Quote #1

It’s difficult for me to understand how it was possible to live under the Bush regime for eight years and then just roll over and do other things Picture Quote #1

Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes Picture Quote #1

Politics imagined as direct agency, whether by voting or by participating in politics, you can think you’re not political because you don’t do anything between elections Picture Quote #1

I don’t know the numbers, but roughly half of the people who came through Ellis Island returned home. They came here to make money, not to make history Picture Quote #1

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If you find yourself as a person in unfamiliar territory, you will grasp on to what is already familiar Picture Quote #1

It’s not that war crimes stop as soon as a novel about them is published. Literature operates slowly, it is always inching toward bliss, never quite getting there Picture Quote #1

Everyone operates within their own domain and obviously those domains overlap to a great extent Picture Quote #1

Only those who do not care, only those who find a way to diminish or extinguish the value of other human beings, survive wars without damage and speak of warrior honor afterward Picture Quote #1

Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared, and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend Picture Quote #1

The liar looks up toward it, hoping against hope that the voices in his head have told him the truth Picture Quote #1

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All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is Picture Quote #1

We stood there, squeezing each other's hands as though trying to press through the flesh to the bones and then beyond. She kissed my cheek and neck, and I felt the joy of omnipresent love - everything around me speaking about me with affection, and Mary was listening Picture Quote #1

I deigned to suggest to him that it was also the American thing - America was nothing if not good intentions Picture Quote #1

What you see is what you see, but that is never everything. Sarajavo is Sarajevo whatever you see or don't see. America is America. The past and future exist without you. And what you don't know about me is still my life. What I don't know about you is still your life. Nothing at all depends on you seeing it or not seeing it. I mean, who are you? You don't have to see or know everything Picture Quote #1

We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon Picture Quote #1

I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to formulate: he had always been complete. He had finished the work of becoming himself, long before any of us could even imagine such a feat was possible Picture Quote #1

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There are moments in life when it is all turned inside out - what is real becomes unreal, what is unreal becomes tangible, and all your levelheaded efforts to keep a tight ontological control are rendered silly and indulgent Picture Quote #1

It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home Picture Quote #1

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not Picture Quote #1

I loved you because there was no other place for me to go. We were married because we did not know what else to do with each other. You never knew me, nothing about me, what died inside me, what lived invisibly Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

So you are Catholic? Didn't know that. I am nothing, I said. God knows God is no friend of mine. But I envy people who believe in this crap. They don't worry about the meaning of life and things, whereas I do Picture Quote #1

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The writer does not dare dream of giving the best of his individuality. No, he must never express his anger. The vacillating demands of mediocrity must be satisfied. Amuse the people, be their clown, give them platitudes about which they can laugh, shadows of truth which they can hold as truths Picture Quote #1

We are never as beautiful as now. The crushing sadness of hotel rooms; the gelid lights and clean notepads; the blank walls and particles of someone else's erased life Picture Quote #1

Displacement results in a tenuous relationship with the past, with the self that used to exist and operate in a different place, where the qualities that constituted us were in no need of negotiation. Immigration is an ontological crisis because you are forced to negotiate the conditions of your self-hood under perpetually changing existential circumstances Picture Quote #1

Before the war, the domain of culture seemed to offer a haven from the increasingly hateful world of politics. Now, when I hear the word culture, I pull out the quote commonly attributed to Hermann Goring:

While he wanted to teach me what he knew, I wanted him to see what it all looked like for me-perhaps love is a process of finding a common vision of reality Picture Quote #1

Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity Picture Quote #1

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Arabs are a complete abstraction in the propaganda world and all the death and destruction is completely unreal to Americans. (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) To me there’s no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they’re just slightly different shapes. (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) It’s difficult for me to understand how it was possible to live under the Bush regime for eight years and then just roll over and do other things. (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes. (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) Politics imagined as direct agency, whether by voting or by participating in politics, you can think you’re not political because you don’t do anything between elections. (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) I don’t know the numbers, but roughly half of the people who came through Ellis Island returned home. They came here to make money, not to make history. (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) If you find yourself as a person in unfamiliar territory, you will grasp on to what is already familiar. (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) It’s not that war crimes stop as soon as a novel about them is published. Literature operates slowly, it is always inching toward bliss, never quite getting there. (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) Everyone operates within their own domain and obviously those domains overlap to a great extent (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) Only those who do not care, only those who find a way to diminish or extinguish the value of other human beings, survive wars without damage and speak of warrior honor afterward (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared, and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) The liar looks up toward it, hoping against hope that the voices in his head have told him the truth (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) We stood there, squeezing each other's hands as though trying to press through the flesh to the bones and then beyond. She kissed my cheek and neck, and I felt the joy of omnipresent love - everything around me speaking about me with affection, and Mary was listening (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) I deigned to suggest to him that it was also the American thing - America was nothing if not good intentions (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) What you see is what you see, but that is never everything. Sarajavo is Sarajevo whatever you see or don't see. America is America. The past and future exist without you. And what you don't know about me is still my life. What I don't know about you is still your life. Nothing at all depends on you seeing it or not seeing it. I mean, who are you? You don't have to see or know everything (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to formulate: he had always been complete. He had finished the work of becoming himself, long before any of us could even imagine such a feat was possible (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) There are moments in life when it is all turned inside out - what is real becomes unreal, what is unreal becomes tangible, and all your levelheaded efforts to keep a tight ontological control are rendered silly and indulgent (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) I loved you because there was no other place for me to go. We were married because we did not know what else to do with each other. You never knew me, nothing about me, what died inside me, what lived invisibly (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) 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 (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) So you are Catholic? Didn't know that. I am nothing, I said. God knows God is no friend of mine. But I envy people who believe in this crap. They don't worry about the meaning of life and things, whereas I do (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) The writer does not dare dream of giving the best of his individuality. No, he must never express his anger. The vacillating demands of mediocrity must be satisfied. Amuse the people, be their clown, give them platitudes about which they can laugh, shadows of truth which they can hold as truths (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) We are never as beautiful as now. The crushing sadness of hotel rooms; the gelid lights and clean notepads; the blank walls and particles of someone else's erased life (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) Displacement results in a tenuous relationship with the past, with the self that used to exist and operate in a different place, where the qualities that constituted us were in no need of negotiation. Immigration is an ontological crisis because you are forced to negotiate the conditions of your self-hood under perpetually changing existential circumstances (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) Before the war, the domain of culture seemed to offer a haven from the increasingly hateful world of politics. Now, when I hear the word culture, I pull out the quote commonly attributed to Hermann Goring: "When I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver." (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) While he wanted to teach me what he knew, I wanted him to see what it all looked like for me-perhaps love is a process of finding a common vision of reality (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes)

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