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" I collect the everyday life of feelings, thoughts, and words. I collect the life of my time. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Feelings
Life
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" 'Women's' war has its own colors, its own smells, its own lighting, and its own range of feelings. There are no heroes and incredible feats; there are simply people who are busy doing inhumanly human things. "
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" I can't rid myself of the feeling that war is a product of the male nature. "
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" Women tell things in more interesting ways. They live with more feeling. They observe themselves and their lives. Men are more impressed with action. For them, the sequence of events is more important. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" There is no need to give in to the compromise that totalitarian regimes always count on. "
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" I've known since I was five that I wanted to be a writer. "
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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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" I am a writer who happens to use some tools of journalism. "
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" My Ukrainian grandmother would tell amazing stories. She lost her father, and as children, we would always listen to her stories. "
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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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" Nothing, not even human life, is more precious to us than our myths about ourselves. "
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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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" The subjects I wanted to write about - the mystery of the human soul, evil - didn't interest newspapers, and news reporting bored me. "
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" Flaubert called himself a human pen; I would say that I am a human ear. When I walk down the street and catch words, phrases, and exclamations, I always think - how many novels disappear without a trace! Disappear into darkness. "
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" 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. "
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" My father was an important person, the director of the school. He could talk to anybody - simple or educated. He liked chess, fishing, and beautiful women. "
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" I grew up in the countryside. "
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" For money, I can buy one thing: I buy freedom. "
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" No book about Soviet sacrifice was as strong as the women's stories I heard as a child. "
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" Art is always kind of snooping and listening in. "
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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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" I don't think we should be deceived that art is such a moral thing. "
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" I have always grappled with the fact that the truth cannot be packaged into one soul or one mind alone. It is something fragmented: there is so much to it; the truth is varied and scattered across the world. "
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" There are horrible periods in which entire nations sink into the plague of darkness and hatred. "
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" I do not remember any questions in my childhood other than questions about death and about loss, and it was clear that the books that filled the house were not as interesting as the conversations outside. "
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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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" Nobody thought the Soviet Union would collapse; it was a shock for everyone. "
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