“ 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. Aleksandar Hemon
“ There's a psychological mechanism, I've come to believe, that prevents most of us from imagining the moment of our own death. For if it were possible to imagine fully that instant of passing from cons… Aleksandar Hemon
“ I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul. Aleksandar Hemon
“ 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 re… Aleksandar Hemon
“ 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, bu… Aleksandar Hemon
“ What is it with boys? How do they slide into fucked-upness so quickly, with such natural ease? Aleksandar Hemon
“ 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
“ He who recollects a thing by which he was once pleased desires to possess it in the same circumstances as when he first was pleased by it. He who was never pleased is doomed to an eternal hard-on. Aleksandar Hemon
“ 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
“ -the apartment had been directly in the sight line of a Serb sniper across the river. Teta-Jozefina was a devout Catholic, but she somehow managed to believe in essential human goodness, despite all t… Aleksandar Hemon
“ 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 rende… Aleksandar Hemon
“ Isabel’s indelible absence is now an organ in our bodies whose sole function is a continuous secretion of sorrow. Aleksandar Hemon
“ 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 mechanism… Aleksandar Hemon
“ Still, it was fair to say that the minimum requirement for a truly enjoyable existence would be unbridled promiscuity. Aleksandar Hemon
“ 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, where… Aleksandar Hemon
“ -not only did he deplore the waste of words, he detested the moral lassitude with which they were wasted. To him, in whose throat the bone of displacement was forever stuck, it was wrong to talk about… Aleksandar Hemon
“ I told her I hated normal people and the land of the fucking free and the home of the asshole brave, and I hated God and George and all and everything. Aleksandar Hemon
