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The Question of Bruno

by Aleksandar Hemon

bookshelves: literature-bosnia-herzogovenia, fiction-set-in-sarajevo, literature-usa, literature-short-fiction, purchased-2026, currently-reading

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Men of Letters

by Saint-Pierre. Michel De.

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Marseille 1940: The Flight of Literature

by Uwe Wittstock

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Liam Ostermann said: " For everyone's information this book is also available in a print edition I have just bought it in English that version from Polity Press in the UK ...more "

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Liam’s Quotes

“Lies were told with ease because words had lost their meaning.”
― Jung Chang

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“Leslie Jamison points out in her essay “Does Recovery Kill Great Writing?”: “If you needed to drink that much, you had to hurt, and drinking and writing were two different responses to that same molten pain: You could numb it, or you could grant it a voice.”
― Daniel Allen Cox, I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah's Witness

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“Believing is halfway to achieving.”
― Vitor M.C. Rodrigues

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“Make a shoe, save the world, right?”
― Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow

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“The problem with experiments is that they tell you nothing unless they are competently done, but in controversial science no-one can agree on a criterion of competence.”
― Harry Collins, The Golem: What You Should Know about Science

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