Quotes from Aleksandar Hemon

Uskoro je povjerovao da to što on piše nije poezija, nego nešto drugo, nešto dublje i teže opisivo; nešto što izražava njegov doživljaj života: napeto srce, suze skrivene u o?ima, osloba?aju?e bezna?e. Te su pjesme bile blues, utvrdio je Mirza, a u to nema sumnje...

I told her I hated normal people and the land of the fucking free and the home of the asshole brave, and I hated God and George and all and everything.

One person's garbage is another person's commodity.

Eso de estar siempre conjeturando cómo será el futuro es una deficiencia humana, y de esa deficiencia surgió el cine.

He who recollects a thing by which he was once pleased desires to possess it in the same circumstances as when he first was pleased by it. He who was never pleased is doomed to an eternal hard-on.

Still, it was fair to say that the minimum requirement for a truly enjoyable existence would be unbridled promiscuity.

Hence Joshua giggled to himself: life appeared to him exactly like the joint burning inexorably toward his fingertips—once it's smoked it cannot be unsmoked.

No one can desire to be blessed, to act well and to live well, unless at the same time he desires to be, to act, and to live, that is, to actually exist.

When the mind imagines its own lack of power, it is saddened by it.

What is it with boys? How do they slide into fucked-upness so quickly, with such natural ease?

He drunkenly recognized that the lust was part of something bigger, of a craving to pursue pleasure unreasonably, beyond the right and wrong, to go as far as his body took him.

If you live long enough, you learn that nothing has ever been, nor will it ever be, the way it used to be.

lovingly. "I enjoy being with you" was her preferred mode of expressing her affection. At worst, she kept him around so he could make her feel better when she needed it, a winning combination of a pet and a dildo.

There are people who just live and there are people who just survive," Bega had said. "Americans live, we survive.

The implicit requirements of the committed relationship Joshua was pursuing with Kimiko assumed spending Saturday nights together for the purposes of intimacy.

He who recollects a thing by which he was once pleased desires to possess it in the same circumstances as when he first was pleased by it.

The world is always greater then your desires; plenty is never enough.

Se quedó quieto, observando, aspirando el olor de la muerte. El cuello de Bernie estaba muy delgado, pero los lóbulos de las orejas, que ya habían alcanzado un tamaño enorme, eran grandes y carnosos. El cuerpo que yacía en aquella cama de hospital no debería pertenecer al padre que Joshua conocía. ¿Adónde había ido a parar el verdadero Bernie?

History: the first time a joke, the second time a badly translated joke.

Hope sold, of course, and well; it was the corn syrup of existence, fast burning and addictive.

Everything after Star Wars is shit.

Addressing the problem required standing up and shoving his hand into his pants to free his testicles from the grip of his underwear. He was not ready for such a commitment, so he endured. The mind can imagine nothing except while the body endures.

This is all based on a true story, gentlemen. Hollywood big shots lined up all the way to the Hills to have a diet soda with me, but I wasn't gonna let them fuck me! No, sir!" Graham flashed his middle finger to the erstwhile line of big shots. "Feel free to fuck yourselves, you bunch of Weinsteins!

He probably came here to like live for free with his grandmother. Mrs. Alzheimer, née Loaded.