"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."

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Aleksandar Hemon

#Facts Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Lines Quotes

“What you understand, you know; and what you know, you don't forget.”

Source : "Speak French with Michel Thomas", Disc 1, 2000.
“A woman well bred and well taught, furnished with the additional accomplishments of knowledge and behaviour, is a creature without comparison. Her society is the emblem of sublimer enjoyments, her person is angelic, and her conversation heavenly. She is all softness and sweetness, peace, love, wit, and delight. She is every way suitable to the sublimest wish, and the man that has such a one to his portion, has nothing to do but to rejoice in her, and be thankful.”
“Genes and family may determine the foundation of the house, but time and place determine its form.”
“The heart is a gate-less gate to divinity. Move to the heart. We are all hung up, stuck in the head - that is our problem. The only problem is that we think too much. There is only one solution - get down from the head to the heart. All your problems will disappear. Problems are created by the head. The heart is innocent. The heart is a fountain of love.”
“The sky is no longer out there, but it is right on the edge of the space you are in. The sense of colour is generated inside you. If you then go outside you will see a different coloured sky. You colour the sky.”
“I know so many people who are eaten up by regret. It manifests itself in so many ways. They either become mentally a bit off, or they get very fat, or they are just horribly depressed.”
“If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.”
“People can tell what's in beer, eh? Like my brother can tell the difference between beers by what his burps taste like.”

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