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" People always speak beautifully when they are in love or close to death. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Death
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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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" '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 used to live in a village, and I always loved listening to old people. Unfortunately, it was always women who were talking, because after the war, very few men were around. I spent my entire life living in the village. The village is always talking about itself; people are talking to each other as the village makes sense of itself. "
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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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" For me, people are like the black boxes found in the debris of airplane crashes. "
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" Lukashenko is very much like Trump, because democracy and Trump are incompatible things. "
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" I've known since I was five that I wanted to be a writer. "
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" America is a remarkable country, but I have a feeling that it's a different country after 9/11. "
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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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" Hatred, I think, is an organism that penetrates our skin in a mythic fashion and does not leave. "
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" The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I grew up in the countryside. "
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" When people talk, it matters how they place words next to each other. "
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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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" I was always meant to study the humanities; I was no good at math or sciences. When it came time for me to work, it was Soviet times, and journalism wasn't that free or interesting of a space. There was a lot of censorship; it was difficult. "
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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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" 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 collect the everyday life of feelings, thoughts, and words. I collect the life of my time. "
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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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