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" Every one of his characters has their own idea, their own thing they want to express. Dostoevsky just lets them do it. "

Svetlana Alexievich

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" There is this tradition, stretching back to Tacitus and Plutarch, that history belongs to the heroes, the emperors. But I grew up among simple people, and their stories just shattered me. It was painful that no one but me was listening to them. "

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" I was born in a big city - Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine - but when I was a child, my father moved us back to his homeland in Minsk. "

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" I don't remember men in our village after World War II: during the war, one out of four Belarusians perished, either fighting at the front or with the partisans. After the war, we children lived in a world of women. What I remember most is that women talked about love, not death. "

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" You might say that my work is just simply lying on the ground, and I go and I gather it, and I pick it up, and I put it together. "

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" Being in the public eye is easy for me because I come from a family of four generations of teachers, so I'm used to being around books and discussions. But to write, I very much need to be alone. "

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" All of history misses out on the history of the soul. Human passions are so often not included in history. "

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" Nobody thought the Soviet Union would collapse; it was a shock for everyone. "

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" We thought we'd leave communism behind, and everything would turn out fine. But it turns out you can't leave this and become free, because these people don't understand what freedom is. "

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" 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. "

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" Ten to 15 of my childhood friends from Minsk died of cancer. Chernobyl kills. "

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" I see the world as voices, as colors, as it were. From book to book, I change, the subjects change, but the narrative thread remains the same. "

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