“Literature is always something - it is either story or poetry, ideally both. That is, you always know what it is and even if the interpretation is not available, the experience of language is.” IfsKnowsStoriesLiteratureLanguageAvailableInterpretation Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can process language.” ThinkingStoriesHumanityLanguageProcessAvailableInherent Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.” WritingHumansLiteratureAvailableAssumptionHuman Experience Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“When I was young, I was all about personal sovereignty and that junk, because there was no privacy and the available ideologies were collective, both socialism/communism and nationalism.” YoungAvailableSocialismIdeologyCommunismPrivacyCollectivesNationalismSovereigntyJunk Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“Chicago is not a bad place to live. But the usual story of immigration is the happy fulfillment of human potential in America that is not available anywhere else - it's propaganda, really. It's more complicated than that.” HumansStoriesAmericaAvailableComplicatedImmigrationPropagandaFulfillmentChicagoUsualPlaces To LiveHuman Potential Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“I cannot think of a country in which I would be happy with the government and dominant ideology and available propaganda.” ThinkingCountryGovernmentWould BeAvailableIdeologyPropagandaDominant Author:Aleksandar Hemon
