Aleksandar Hemon Quotes - Page 6

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• My books have been published all over Europe. They read me there, and I want to read them back. I also spend a lot of time in Europe, often meeting writers, and I'm sick of apologizing for the embarrassing shortage of translations in America.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Book, Sick, Apologizing

  "Against Eternal Provincialism: An Interview with Aleksandar Hemon". The Amazon Book Review Interview, www.amazonbookreview.com. December 16, 2009.

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• You can see the diversity that pieces in the anthology represent, and then the interconnections-obvious and less obvious-between various stories or between various modes of storytelling. Diversity generates need for conversation, conversation generates common interests, as well as differences. Literature, as a human project, is all about that.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Diversity, Literature, Common

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Anything that might come under arts should not be subject to the whims of the idiotic market because the market's stupid, and it gravitates toward simplicity - towards essentializing things so they can be sold.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Art, Stupid, Simplicity

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• Europe is a rapidly changing place, on every level. Immigration, post-communist transitions, the unification, steady presence of war and conflict, the inescapable challenges to the notion of national literature/culture-it all exerts pressure upon writers who must be aware of the transformational possibilities of the situation.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  War, Challenges, Literature

  "Against Eternal Provincialism: An Interview with Aleksandar Hemon". The Amazon Book Review Interview, www.amazonbookreview.com. December 16, 2009.

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• I do believe - and I know I shouldn't - that art transcends money and success and any of that. You can still do it if you're not clinging to the notion of nobility.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Art, Believe, Clinging

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• I like to blow up this notion that all we have to do as writers and artists is represent reality, which is presumably solid and self-evident, with no negotiation of the gap between myself and the world, between this body and this space, which needs narration to close it.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Artist, Blow, Reality

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• I want to make money, and I would like to have a lot of money, but I still believe that the only reason to write is that somehow it will make something or somebody better.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Believe, Writing, Want

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• We, as writers, have to figure out a way to create a consciousness in language. It's crazy even to attempt to do that.

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  Crazy, Way, Language

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• Despite all that I know rationally, and everything that I can put into words, I can say that I have difficulty giving up the notion of the nobility of art.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Art, Giving Up, Difficulty

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• You have to suspend thinking in narratives. The moment you are conscious of yourself the gap opens up. And in this gap, stories are generated.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Thinking, Narrative, Gaps

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• One of the many conditions that have to be met for a brain to become a mind, and therefore have consciousness, is 'the analog I' around which all the simultaneous inflow of sensations and stimulations are reflected and organized.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Mind, Brain, Consciousness

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for the first time, every time.

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  Art, Narrative, Firsts

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• I have been on the margins in terms of having to find a place to live and getting a job, but at some point, and before that point, I always thought no matter where I am, that's the center.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Jobs, Matter, Places To Live

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Rachel Dewoskin, therumpus.net. April 14, 2013.

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• There are many things I think about that never get to the point of becoming serious. In other words, I try to talk myself out of writing, sometimes for many years, and when I run out of arguments, I write.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Running, Writing, Thinking

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• 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

  Thinking, Agency, Voting

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Rachel Dewoskin, therumpus.net. April 14, 2013.

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• I know a lot of people in the city, at all levels, horizontally and vertically - and that to me is a privilege, to me as a person but also a writer. I've dined with billionaires, and I play soccer with busboys.

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  Soccer, Play, Cities

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Rachel Dewoskin, therumpus.net. April 14, 2013.

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• I'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation.

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  Expectations, Temperament, Dilettantes

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Rachel Dewoskin, therumpus.net. April 14, 2013.

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• I'm bright, but there are lots of bright writers and people everywhere. In no way, at no point do I think I'm better than them.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Thinking, People, Way

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Rachel Dewoskin, therumpus.net. April 14, 2013.

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• I have a hard time imagining a country or a government where I would say, "Oh, this is good," where I could live under a government that I respect for a day or a week, even to see what it feels like.

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  Country, Hard Times, Government

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Rachel Dewoskin, therumpus.net. April 14, 2013.

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• There is a point in fighting. There is a point in struggle. Not wholesale revolution, maybe, that might not be possible, an absolutely just society, but there are plenty of spaces and places where it's worth putting up a fight.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Struggle, Fighting, Space

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Rachel Dewoskin, therumpus.net. April 14, 2013.

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• I want to change something. I want to stop the germs from attacking my daughters.

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  Daughter, Want, Germs

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Rachel Dewoskin, therumpus.net. April 14, 2013.

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• An unjust world represented as harmonious is a political position.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Political, World, Unjust

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Rachel Dewoskin, therumpus.net. April 14, 2013.

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• If I represent the world as it is as harmonious, that's a political position.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Political, World, Position

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Rachel Dewoskin, therumpus.net. April 14, 2013.

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• I think about the story while I think about other things. This is an important part of the process: I look at it sideways. If I look straight at it, it produces nothing other than what seem like complicated, brilliant designs that fall apart the following morning. In some way stories mature when you're not looking.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Morning, Fall, Thinking

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• I don't like having a teaching job - office hours and conferences and committees and bosses and all that - but I tend to enjoy teaching, and I design the course in such a way that there'll be pleasure in that.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Jobs, Teaching, Office

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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