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Quote by Aleksandar Hemon

“In some way there is no real life. It's always the story of your life that you're living.”

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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

“Only the violent acts of men "count" toward something besides evil in a patriarchy. It is the male story of violence that is sanctioned both socially and aesthetically. The male hero and acts of heroism require violence. Everyone is okey dokey with that. We are only beginning to see that constricting set of truths open up a little.”

Men Littles Stories Evil Violence Hero Males Violent Heroism Patriarchy Violent Acts Acts Of Heroism

Author:Lidia Yuknavitch

“We apply the language that is comforting and comfortable and familiar in order to grasp that which confuses and scares us. That is the first step toward cliché and stereotype, as they're comforting devices. They reduce the confusing world to the already familiar. We're always smoothing out the bumps of actual living to turn it into narratable life.”

World Firsts Order Turns Language Steps Comfortable Familiar Devices Scare First Steps Stereotype Confusing Comforting Bumps

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“I believe people are much more complicated than they can handle.”

People Believe I Believe Complicated Handle

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“Birth is of course violent. Menstruation is violent. Trust me, if men's penises opened up once a month and shot blood, we'd be hearing about the violence of it.”

Ifs Men Courses Violence Blood Months Birth Shots Hearing Violent Trust Me Menstruation

Author:Lidia Yuknavitch

“The maternal impulse in animals to protect their young - that kind of instinct and subsequent violence is quite beautiful. Mythic even.”

Kind Beautiful Young Animal Violence Protect Instinct Impulse

Author:Lidia Yuknavitch

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

Thinking Country Government Would Be Available Ideology Propaganda Dominant

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“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.”

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