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“I cannot think of a country in which I would be happy with the government and dominant ideology and available propaganda.”

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Aleksandar Hemon

Aleksandar Hemon is a Serbian-American writer known for his unique literary style and profound humanistic concerns. His works focus on themes of immigration, identity, and individual experience, and have won him a wide readership. more

“When a female character sets herself on fire in an effort to interrupt her culture's violent abuse of disenfranchised people, or physically tortures and punishes her guardian rapist, or picks up a gun and fights back in ways that make her not pretty, or aggressively rejects her role as the object of desire, or even when she waddles off into the woods to squat and have a baby without the safety and expertise of hospitals and doctors, these are the kinds of violences and stories we can learn from.”

“What I don't like about America is not necessarily an American thing; it's a capitalist thing. This is the Vatican of capitalism.”

America Capitalism Capitalist

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“We can't handle violence in women characters but we CAN handle what's done to women in our present tense every second of the day worldwide? Or next door? Or in political or medical discourse? Please. That idea just makes me want to crap on a table at a very fancy restaurant.”

Want Ideas Done Character Political Next Violence Doors Please Tables Medical Handle Fancy Restaurants Crap Discourse Tense Every Second Present Tense

Author:Lidia Yuknavitch

“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.”

Needs Humans Process Capitalism Simplicity Complicated Inclination Human Needs Complicated Things

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“Only when I make movements away from the tribe of indie art and literature. Maybe that's something important for me to keep thinking about. What you gain, what you lose, why and how. Maybe the edge of the page is the place for me. Maybe that's OK.”

Thinking Art Important Literature Loses Movement Pages Gains Edges Tribes

Author:Lidia Yuknavitch

“I get asked a lot why Apple's customers are so loyal. It's not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That's ridiculous.”

Church Customers Ridiculous Apples Loyal Macs Macintosh

Book:Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

“I don't think that everyone should have a philosophical answer to any given question. There are things that need to be done.”

Thinking Needs Should Done Given Answers Should Have Philosophical

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“I first read Freud's famous case study on hysteria based on his client Ida Bauer when I was in my twenties. It pissed me off so badly it haunted me for 25 years. But I had to wait to be a good enough writer to give Ida her voice back. And I had to go get my own first too. I not only know the case study inside and out, like most women, I lived a version of it. Maybe it's time for us to tell our versions.”

Knows Giving Years Firsts Enough Waiting Voice My Own Cases Study Twenties Versions Good Enough Clients Hysteria Case Studies

Author:Lidia Yuknavitch

“You don't want your neurosurgeon to have doubts about the meaning of it all while he or she is operating on your brain.”

Want Brain Doubt Neurosurgeons

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“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.”

Should Art Might Subjects Stupid Simplicity Whim Idiotic

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

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