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" No book about Soviet sacrifice was as strong as the women's stories I heard as a child. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Child
Book
Women
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" Many times, I have been shocked and frightened by human beings. I have experienced delight and revulsion. I have sometimes wanted to forget what I heard, to return to a time when I lived in ignorance. More than once, however, I have seen the sublime in people and wanted to cry. "
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" The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being. "
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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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" 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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" Lukashenko is very much like Trump, because democracy and Trump are incompatible things. "
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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. "
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" In the West, people demonize Putin. They do not understand that there is a collective Putin, consisting of some millions of people who do not want to be humiliated by the West. There is a little piece of Putin in everyone. "
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" I love how humans talk. "
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Talk
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" We need a philosophy for humans and nature to live together. "
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Need
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Nature
" There are horrible periods in which entire nations sink into the plague of darkness and hatred. "
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" I am a writer who happens to use some tools of journalism. "
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I Am
" '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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Women
War
" I will never write fiction. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Will
Write
Fiction
" All our lives, we fight for certain ideals, and they get diluted, and then we have to fight for them again. "
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Our
Fight
Get
" 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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Picture
Life
Soul
" 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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Find
Internet
People
" Stalin's machine can be started up again at only a moment's notice: the same informers, the same denunciations, the same tortures. The same universal, all-devouring terror. "
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Only
Up
Again
" 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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Get
Face
War
" 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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Struggle
Women
Life
" I name the genre that I write in as 'novel of voices.' "
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Voices
Novel
Write
" 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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Beginning
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Writing
" 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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Dead
" 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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Easy
Me
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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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You
Want
Story
" 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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Together
Image
" I've known since I was five that I wanted to be a writer. "
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Five
Wanted
" 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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Beautiful
Women
Fishing
" Nobody thought the Soviet Union would collapse; it was a shock for everyone. "
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Nobody
" I love to sit on my own and think, not to be photographed all the time. "
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