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" For money, I can buy one thing: I buy freedom. "

Svetlana Alexievich

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" I'm interested in little people. 'The little, great people' is how I would put it, because suffering expands people. "

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" Reality has always attracted me like a magnet; it tortured and hypnotized me. I wanted to capture it on paper. "

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" I name the genre that I write in as 'novel of voices.' "

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" I don't want to be like other authors and say that there are only a few story lines in literature. A story is like a human face. We have as many stories as human faces. You might have similar facial features, but they're all a little different. "

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" A man without a memory is only capable of doing evil, nothing else but evil. "

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" We were romantics in the 1990s and thought that communism was dead. But 10 years passed, and Putin came, and it became obvious that the process is reversible; that communism will, to varying degrees, return again and again. "

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" I write my books at moments of shock. I meet people in extremis and their stories are highly emotionally charged. "

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" When people talk, it matters how they place words next to each other. "

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" 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. "

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" Belarus is a closed, authoritarian system, and the theme of Chernobyl is also a closed topic. "

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" 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. "

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" Hatred will always give birth to more and more hate, and love has the power to demolish the borders between us. "

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" I have collected the history of 'domestic,' 'indoor' socialism, bit by bit. The history of how it played out in the human soul. I am drawn to that small space called a human being... a single individual. In reality, that is where everything happens. "

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" I'm not a public person. "

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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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" 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. "

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" There is no need to give in to the compromise that totalitarian regimes always count on. "

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" Putin has mobilized and gathered the desires of millions upon millions of people who have been lied to, cheated, who lost out in the new order of things - and in each of these people is a bit of Putin. They have come together to make the image we know as Putin. Putin himself is just the tip of an iceberg. "

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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. "

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" My wish is to humanize history. "

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" I'm interested in love and in death. Everything evolves from these things. "

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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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" 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. "

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" Putin is not a politician. Putin is a KGB agent. And whatever he does is provocations, which KGB is usually involved in. "

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" 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. "

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" What I'm concerned with is what I would call the missing history - the invisible imprint of our stay on Earth and in time. "

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" A totalitarian power is mainly busy in keeping itself alive. "

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" I'm interested in the history of the soul: the everyday life of the soul, the things that the big picture of history usually omits - or disdains. "

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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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