Quotes by Stojanovic, Dejan




Dejan Stojanoviæ was born in Pec, Kosovo (the former Yugoslavia), in 1959. Although a lawyer by education, he has never practiced law and instead became a journalist. He is a poet, essayist, philosopher, and businessman and published six critically acclaimed books of poetry in Serbia: "Circling," "The Sun Watches the Sun," "The Sign and Its Children," "The Shape," "The Creator," and "Dance of Time." In 1986, as a young writer, he was recognized among 200 writers at the Bor (former Yugoslavia) Literary Festival. He also received the prestigious "Rastko Petrovic" Award from the Society of Serbian Writers for his book of interviews with major European and American artists and writers. In addition to poetry and prose, he has worked as a correspondent for the Serbian weekly magazine "Pogledi" ("Views"). His book of interviews from 1990 to 1992 in Europe and America, entitled Conversations, included interviews with several major American writers, including Nobel Laureate Saul Bellow, Charles Simic, and Steve Tesic. He has been living in Chicago since 1990. .

"A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on lie    Share


"Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on truth    Share

"In the lie of truth lies the truth. "

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"Teaching others, he corrected himself. "

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"He did not waste time in a vain search for a place in history. "

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"After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare? "

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"How does one say something new and not retell? "

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"Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing."

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"He did not profess to anybody how to reach others without professing. "

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"You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself. "

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"Do not look too far for you will see nothing. "

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"Either you will be you or you will not be at all. "

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"We need knew knights, but without swords. "

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"Come out from within yourself, speak out. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on weakness    Share

"Say No! Accept the burdens of revenge. "

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"Wherever there is somebody else, a war is not far away. "

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"Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself."

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"A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window. "

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"We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on progress    Share

"Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on deceit    Share

"His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on confidence    Share

"Now that we are all so smart, we don’t easily find resolutions. "

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"He thought others were small; that was his greatness."

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"This dwarf still observes the world from his own self-imposed height. "

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"If you could have walked on the planet before humans lived here, maybe the Ivory Coast would have seemed more beautiful than La Côte d'Azur. "

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"We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit. "

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"There are no winners in real games. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on games    Share

"The game itself is bigger than the winning. "

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"You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes. "

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"Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns. "

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"For a game, you don’t need a teacher. "

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"Faith is a question of eyesight; even the blind can see that. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on faith    Share

"Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions."

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"Christ did not ask or want to be what he was not. "

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"Burning the witch Giordano Bruno is one more wound inflicted on Christ’s body. "

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"Your head is a lit chamber. "

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"The light teaches you to convert life into a festive promenade. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on light    Share

"What we call life is only talk of nature. "

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"Nothing is inanimate; what is the rest is our interpretation. "

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"We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards. "

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