“The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements.” PersonsLife IsGoalClassMiddleAchievementProjectsPrivilegeComplicatedMiddle ClassStableBourgeoisRefinedLife GoalUncomplicatedGoals And Achievement 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 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.” IfsThinkingWayLooksImportantStoriesSeemsFallProcessMorningDesignProduceFollowingComplicatedBrilliantMatureFalling ApartSideways Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“The mind is complicated and you can't trace the roots of its processes, but there is something about mathematical and algorithmic patterns that I like to recognize in things.” MindProcessRootsPatternsComplicatedMathematical Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“I believe people are much more complicated than they can handle.” PeopleBelieveI BelieveComplicatedHandle Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“Wherever there's capitalism there's this inclination toward simplicity. There's also a human need to process complicated things by turning them into something else.” NeedsHumansProcessCapitalismSimplicityComplicatedInclinationHuman NeedsComplicated Things Author:Aleksandar Hemon
