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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. "

Svetlana Alexievich

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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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" We, people of socialism, are not like others. We have our peculiar ideas about heroes and martyrs. "

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

" From the point of view of art, the butcher and the victim are equal as people. You need to see the people. "

" My wish is to humanize history. "

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" Freedom is not an instantaneous holiday, as we once dreamed. It is a road. A long road. We know this now. "

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

" Lukashenko is very much like Trump, because democracy and Trump are incompatible things. "

" 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. "

" People always speak beautifully when they are in love or close to death. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I don't think we should be deceived that art is such a moral thing. "

" 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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" America is a remarkable country, but I have a feeling that it's a different country after 9/11. "

" I'm not a public person. "

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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. "

" It's very important to listen when someone is speaking up. I always keep my ear to the ground. "

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" What is life about? Two things: love and death. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "