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1. "I will never know you, nothing about you, what has died inside you, what has lived invisibly. I am elsewhere now." ~ Aleksandar Hemon
2. "People here snarl and frown a lot, he wrote; he had seen neither a smile nor the sun in months. What is life without beauty, love, and justice?" ~ Aleksandar Hemon
3. "The liar looks up toward it, hoping against hope that the voices in his head have told him the truth." ~ Aleksandar Hemon
4. "The cafeteria in the Chicago's Children's Memorial Hospital basement was the saddest place in the world—and forever it shall be—with its grim neon lights and gray tabletops and the diffuse foreboding of those who stepped away from suffering children to have a grilled cheese sandwich." ~ Aleksandar Hemon
5. "The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs and reverse its curses simply because the trees are coming into leaf." ~ Aleksandar Hemon
6. "We hated pretentiousness; it was a form of self-hatred." ~ Aleksandar Hemon
7. "I take picture because i like to look at the pictures I take.It seems to me that when people take a picture of something, they instantly forget about it.They can look at the picture and remind themselves." ~ Aleksandar Hemon
8. "We know that laws ought to be obeyed only if they come out of people's sense of justice, not because the state needs them to preserve its power. Laws devised for the depravity of power are as worthless as the paper they are printed on." ~ Aleksandar Hemon
9. "It never ends, Pinya says. Every time, you think maybe this here is a different world, but it's all the same: they live, we die. So here it is again." ~ Aleksandar Hemon
10. "I had an epiphany: I was a loser." ~ Aleksandar Hemon
11. "I know as well as anybody how hard it is to live after a grave loss. But life needs to go on, it must never stop. It is our duty to keep life going." ~ Aleksandar Hemon
12. "God knows our despair. God wants His chosen people to live in peace. God loves life, cares less about death. We need to live. I want to live, I want my children to live. Everyone I know wants to live. You have to ask yourself what is more important to you, life is death. What is this world about - life or death?" ~ Aleksandar Hemon
13. "It was a great fucking time, the short era of disaster euphoria, for nothing enhances pleasures and blocks guilt like a looming cataclysm." ~ Aleksandar Hemon
14. "Then everyone would retreat for a nap, after which we would have coffee and cake, sometimes an argument." ~ Aleksandar Hemon
15. "Listening to Ella furiously and endlessly unfurl the yarns of the Mingus tales, I understood that the need to tell stories is deeply embedded in our minds, and inseparably entangled with the mechanisms that generate and absorb language. Narrative imagination--and therefore fiction--is a basic evolutionary tool of survival. We process the world by telling stories and produce human knowledge through our engagement with imagined selves." ~ Aleksandar Hemon
16. "Time does nothing but hand you down shabbier and older things." ~ Aleksandar Hemon
17. "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
18. "If my mind and my city were the same thing then I was losing my mind." ~ Aleksandar Hemon
19. "I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter pieces in English, and one of them got published in a literary magazine and that's how it got started. After that, graduate school didn't seem very important." ~ Aleksandar Hemon
20. "A particular piece of music attaches itself to the piece I'm writing, and there is nothing else I can listen to. Every day I return to the same space to write, the music providing both the walls and the pictures on the walls." ~ Aleksandar Hemon
21. "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 'Abbey Road.' Its disjointedness and its readiness to confuse only to delight were inspiring to me." ~ Aleksandar Hemon
22. "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
23. "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
24. "But the moment you point at a difference, you enter, regardless of age, an already existing system of differences, a network of identities, all of them ultimately arbitrary and unrelated to your intentions, none of them a matter of your choice. The moment you other someone, you other yourself. When I idiotically pointed at Almir's non-existent difference, I expelled myself from my raja." ~ Aleksandar Hemon
25. "Where can you go from nowhere, except deeper into nowhere?" ~ Aleksandar Hemon
26. "Mujo is a refugee in Germany, has no job, but has a lot of time, so he goes to a Turkish bath. The bath is full of German businessmen with towels around their waists, huffing and puffing, but every once in a while a cell phone rings and they pull their phone out from under the towel and say, Bitte? Mujo seems to be the only one without a cell phone, so he goes to the bathroom and stuffs toilet paper up his butt. He walks back out, a long trail of toilet paper behind him. So a German says, you have some paper, Herr, sticking out behind you. Oh, Mujo says, it looks like I have received a fax." ~ Aleksandar Hemon
27. "My dreams were but a means of forgetting, they were the branches tied to the galloping horses of our days, the emptying of the garbage so that tomorrow - assuming there would be a tomorrow - could be filled up with new life. You die, you forget, you wake up knew." ~ Aleksandar Hemon
28. "One builds one's life in consistency; one invests it with the belief, however unsupported by reality, that one has always been what one is now, that even in one's distant past one could recognize the seed from which this doomed flower has bloomed." ~ Aleksandar Hemon
29. "The detectives ransack the place with the passion of soldiers fighting a just war." ~ Aleksandar Hemon
30. "Lord, why did you leave me in these woods?" ~ Aleksandar Hemon
31. "Nobody deserves death, yet everybody gets it." ~ Aleksandar Hemon
32. "I deigned to suggest to him that it was also the American thing -- America was nothing if not good intentions." ~ Aleksandar Hemon
33. "What is life? This is no life. Who wants this life?The dead leave it to us to struggle in this world. They go elsewhere, wherever it is, and wait for God to sort it all out. But we have to stay here, no matter how hard it is. Nobody can be alone. Life is the life of others. My life, your life, that is nothing." ~ Aleksandar Hemon
34. "If there are more dead than living, then the world is about death, and the question is: What are we to do with all the death? Who is going to remember all the dead?" ~ Aleksandar Hemon
35. "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
36. "I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability of the correct decision, to bond in being confounded." ~ Aleksandar Hemon
37. "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
38. "Isabel's indelible absence is now an organ in our bodies whose sole function is a continuous secretion of sorrow." ~ Aleksandar Hemon
39. "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
40. "I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction." ~ Aleksandar Hemon
41. "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
42. "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
43. "In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that." ~ Aleksandar Hemon
44. "Memory narrativises itself." ~ Aleksandar Hemon
45. "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." ~ Aleksandar Hemon
46. "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
47. "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
48. "Home is where somebody notices your absence." ~ Aleksandar Hemon
49. "If you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world-indeed, nowhere is the world." ~ Aleksandar Hemon
50. "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
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A work of (whatever) art can either be 'received' or 'used'. When we 'receive' it we expert our senses and imagination and various other powers according the the pattern set by the artist. When we 'use' it, we treat it as assistance for our own activities. The one, to use an old-fashioned image, is like being taken for a bicycle ride by a man who may know roads we have not yet explored. The other is like adding one of those little motor attachments to our own bicycle and then going for one of our familiar rides."
Author: C.S. Lewis

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