124 quotes by bosniak authors for you to enjoy

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, but then they go home as well when they go to where they live now. Sarajevo is home, Chicago is home. Aleksandar Hemon

Life Home Old Parents Old Friends Live Elsewhere Say See Someone Like Well Return Leaves Go Go Home Chicago Friends Going Going Home Where Might Then Who Now Homes Hometown Two

The ninth, the worst circle of the Inferno - Dante intended it for traitors. Alija Izetbegovic

Circle Worst Ninth Dante Intended Inferno Traitors

Islam is a way of living rather than a way of thinking. Alija Izetbegovic

Islam Living Thinking Way Rather Than

Life is a dangerous thing. Insecurity is the price of living. Alija Izetbegovic

Life Dangerous Insecurity Life Is A Living Dangerous Thing Price Thing

Socialism and freedom are not compatible, regardless of repeated convincings. Alija Izetbegovic

Freedom Socialism Repeated Regardless Compatible

The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it. Zana Marjanovic

Me You Clothes Unnatural Borrowing Give Something Rather Sharing Feel Like Comfortable Very Than Just Whole Thing

I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop. Aleksandar Hemon

Some Postmodern Fact Between Like Reader Sort Line Fiction Blur

I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation. Aleksandar Hemon

Wait Situation Out Tend True Most Mature Fiction Grew Stories

I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all that. Aleksandar Hemon

Life Bad Take Make America Any Place Which Agency Choices

I did not intend to stay; I had no experience in the United States - I may have been here less than 24 hours - but I knew I would never get inside there. And 'there' not being America necessarily, but that harmonious mode of living that some people are lucky enough to have in this country. Aleksandar Hemon

Experience People Some People Country Living Enough Harmonious States Would Stay Inside No Experience Some Never Had Knew Hours Been Mode Than America Get Intend Did May Being Less Lucky United United States Necessarily Here

In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that. Aleksandar Hemon

Word Distinction Bosnian Between Nonfiction Fiction Literature Describing

I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat. Aleksandar Hemon

Long Situation Write Writer Retreat Reader Any

When we're upset, our vocal cords tighten and we can't speak. And when I lie - well, I can't lie, because the same thing happens - everyone who knows me knows that when I start squeaking, I've started lying. Aleksandar Hemon

I wish I could avoid the people who have threatened me. My favorite threat is that I will be thrown in the River Miljacka, which is at most knee-deep, with my feet bound in cement. Aleksandar Hemon

Me People Will Wish Favorite Threat Threatened Could Thrown River Bound Feet Most Cement Which Avoid Who

I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter pieces in English, and one of them got published in a literary magazine and that's how it got started. After that, graduate school didn't seem very important. Aleksandar Hemon

Writing School Important Everything Find Magazine Seem Could Pieces Read Got How Very Graduate Graduate School James Literary After While Them Then Really Twain English Hemingway Henry Published Henry James Started

A particular piece of music attaches itself to the piece I'm writing, and there is nothing else I can listen to. Every day I return to the same space to write, the music providing both the walls and the pictures on the walls. Aleksandar Hemon

Music Day Every Day Writing Walls Space Nothing Every Else Both Write Particular Pictures Piece Return Providing Itself Same Listen

I actually didn't listen to the Beatles song 'Nowhere Man' when I was writing my book of the same name. What I listened to a lot was 'Abbey Road.' Its disjointedness and its readiness to confuse only to delight were inspiring to me. Aleksandar Hemon

Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those 'others'. Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that. Alija Izetbegovic

Racism Complicated Strong Three Country Nationalism Others State Those Out Religions Bosnia Supposed Make Lot Nations Them Now Two

There are only three integral views of the world: the religious, the materialistic, and the Islamic. They reflect three elemental possibilities (conscience, nature, and man), each of them manifesting itself as Christianity, materialism, and Islam. Alija Izetbegovic

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