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Aleksandar Hemon Quotes about Reality

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One builds one's life in consistency; one invests it with the belief, however unsupported by reality, that one has always been what one is now, that even in one's distant past one could recognize the seed from which

One builds one's life in consistency; one invests it with the belief, however unsupported by reality, that one has always been what one is now, that even in one's distant past one could recognize the seed from which this doomed flower has bloomed.

Aleksandar Hemon
Flower, Past, Reality
Aleksandar Hemon (2010). “Love and Obstacles”, p.155, Pan Macmillan

The incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth - reality is the fastest American commodity.

Aleksandar Hemon
Reality, People, Fantasy
Aleksandar Hemon (2009). “The Lazarus Project”, p.103, Pan Macmillan

I like to blow up this notion that all we have to do as writers and artists is represent reality, which is presumably solid and self-evident, with no negotiation of the gap between myself and the world, between this body and this space, which needs narration to close it.

Aleksandar Hemon
Artist, Blow, Reality
"There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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