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" America is a remarkable country, but I have a feeling that it's a different country after 9/11. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Different
Country
America
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" What is life about? Two things: love and death. "
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" The books that I'm writing, you can write them only when you're amongst your people. You're not going to find it on the Internet. You're not going to hear it there. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Find
Internet
People
" A man without a memory is only capable of doing evil, nothing else but evil. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Only
Doing
Evil
" There is no need to give in to the compromise that totalitarian regimes always count on. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Give
Need
Count
" My writing is not just all facts and voices. I strive to create a text that works as a sign, pointing out undercurrents that lie beneath the facts. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Out
Lie
Facts
" Women are the most denigrated social group in the Soviet Union. The idea of women's emancipation is only a slogan in - but also, I should say, in many places outside - the Soviet Union. But especially in the militaristic Soviet society, people only thought of life in terms of struggle and the workers' toil. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Struggle
Women
Life
" Humans have occupied a position in nature that they should not. It is impossible for humans to conquer nature. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Conquer
Impossible
Nature
" I believe that in the 21st century, we should arm ourselves with ideas. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Ideas
21st Century
Believe
" Communism has not died. We naively thought in the '90s we had buried communism, but this is not true. It is not dead, and it will be coming back. "
Svetlana Alexievich
True
Communism
Dead
" Journalists do not write about human feelings. "
Svetlana Alexievich
About
Feelings
Write
" Reality has always attracted me like a magnet; it tortured and hypnotized me. I wanted to capture it on paper. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Always
Reality
Paper
" There are many oral historians in America, but my books are made using the rules of novel writing. I have a beginning, a plot, characters. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Beginning
Rules
Writing
" When I was a child, women spoke to me of how all they had was their memories, how their husbands went to war and never came back, so many tragedies. That chorus of voices filled my consciousness. It was part of life itself. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Me
Memories
Life
" Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of a great empire. "
Svetlana Alexievich
People
Great
Age
" My wish is to humanize history. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Wish
History
" In the post-Soviet era, instead of freedom, various stripes of autocratic-totalitarianism have flourished: Russian, Belarusian, Kazakh... We are finding our way out from under the debris of the 'Red Empire' slowly and tentatively. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Way
Freedom
Out
" Freedom is not an instantaneous holiday, as we once dreamed. It is a road. A long road. We know this now. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Long
Now
Holiday
" From the point of view of art, the butcher and the victim are equal as people. You need to see the people. "
Svetlana Alexievich
People
Art
You
" I used to live in a village, and I always loved listening to old people. Unfortunately, it was always women who were talking, because after the war, very few men were around. I spent my entire life living in the village. The village is always talking about itself; people are talking to each other as the village makes sense of itself. "
Svetlana Alexievich
People
War
Men
" We are all prisoners of the ideas of the times we live in. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Times
Prisoners
Live
" Art is always kind of snooping and listening in. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Always
Listening
Kind
" I love the lone human voice. It is my greatest love and passion. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Love
Greatest
Voice
" I couldn't get published for three years. Then the times changed: glasnost, perestroika. So, for three years, I wasn't allowed to publish 'The Unwomanly Face of War,' but then it changed. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Get
Face
War
" All our lives, we fight for certain ideals, and they get diluted, and then we have to fight for them again. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Our
Fight
Get
" My Ukrainian grandmother would tell amazing stories. She lost her father, and as children, we would always listen to her stories. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Amazing
Father
Children
" For money, I can buy one thing: I buy freedom. "
Svetlana Alexievich
One Thing
Buy
Freedom
" I don't love great ideas. I love the little human being. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Love
Great
Human
" Hatred, I think, is an organism that penetrates our skin in a mythic fashion and does not leave. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Skin
Leave
Hatred
" Every one of his characters has their own idea, their own thing they want to express. Dostoevsky just lets them do it. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Them
Characters
Idea
" Why do I write? I have been called a writer of catastrophes, but that isn't true. I am always looking for words of love. Hate will not save us. Only love. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Love
Hate
I Am