Phrase by 'Aleksandar Hemon'
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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.
Author: Aleksandar Hemon - Bosniak WriterLife , Home , Parents , Old Friends
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 I've always followed his work and loved it.
Author: Aleksandar Hemon - Bosniak WriterWork , Singing , Loved , Birthday
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.
Author: Aleksandar Hemon - Bosniak WriterGame , Path , Stand , Forgiveness
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.
Author: Aleksandar Hemon - Bosniak WriterLike , Line , Some , Blur
To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.
Author: Aleksandar Hemon - Bosniak WriterMe , Just , Book , Difference
I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.
Author: Aleksandar Hemon - Bosniak WriterTrue , Wait , Situation , Mature
I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all that.
Author: Aleksandar Hemon - Bosniak WriterLife , Bad , America , Place
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.
Author: Aleksandar Hemon - Bosniak WriterLove , Everything , Care , Wait
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.
Author: Aleksandar Hemon - Bosniak WriterPeople , America , Experience , Some People
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.
Author: Aleksandar Hemon - Bosniak WriterLife , You , People , Back
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